CFGI data breach
248,235 accounts exposed in a breach on 6 March 2026.
At a glance
248,235
Accounts exposed
6 March 2026
Date of the breach
18 June 2026
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What happened
In March 2026, the financial consulting and advisory firm CFGI was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay-or-leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently publicised data allegedly obtained from CFGI comprising corporate contact information, including 243k unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses.
What was exposed
- Email addresses. Email addresses were exposed. Expect more spam and phishing aimed at those addresses.
- Employers. Employer names were exposed. Scammers use them to pretend to be a colleague or the workplace.
- Job titles. Job titles were exposed. Scammers use them to aim a message at the right person.
- Names. Names were exposed. Scammers use real names to make a message look personal.
- Phone numbers. Phone numbers were exposed. Expect scam calls and text messages, some of them pretending to be the organisation.
- Physical addresses. Home or postal addresses were exposed. They can be used to make a scam letter or a fake identity look real.
What to do now
It depends on what was exposed, so these steps follow the list above.
If your contact details were exposed
- Expect more spam, scam calls and phishing. Do not click links or open attachments in messages you did not expect.
- If a message mentions this breach, do not reply. Go to the organisation's own website or app instead of using a link in the message.
Whatever was exposed
- Check which other breaches include your own email address and phone number.
- Keep an eye on your accounts for a few months. Breached data is often used long after the breach.
- If you think someone is using your details, report it to the organisation and to your national cyber crime reporting service.
Check your own exposure
- Password leak check: find out whether a password has appeared in a breach. The password never leaves your browser.
- Free domain security scan: grade the email, DNS and website security of a domain you own.
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