Data leak β›“ Supply Chain

Telus Digital ShinyHunters Breach - ~1 Petabyte

πŸ“… 2026-01-01 🏒 Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery); Salesforce; Drift
Primary Source β†—

Incident Details

Telus Digital (Canadian BPO providing outsourced customer support, content moderation, and AI services) confirmed a multi-month breach on March 12, 2026. ShinyHunters claimed credit, alleging theft of nearly 1 petabyte of data. Attackers found GCP credentials in a Drift data export, used them to access BigQuery, then ran trufflehog to discover additional credentials enabling lateral movement. Stolen data allegedly included customer support records, agent performance data, AI training data, call recordings, FBI background checks, Salesforce data, source code, and financial information for numerous BPO client companies. ShinyHunters demanded $65 million and received no response. The breach is potentially related to simultaneous attacks on Crunchyroll and Hims & Hers, both Telus Digital BPO clients, via compromised Okta SSO accounts.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
ShinyHunters discovered Google Cloud Platform credentials for Telus Digital embedded in a Drift data export; used those credentials to access BigQuery, then pivoted using additional secrets found with trufflehog to access further systems
Vendor / Product
Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery); Salesforce; Drift
Supply Chain Attack
βœ… Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2026-01-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2026-03-12 Publicly disclosed