3 household names. 21 million records. Zero malware deployed. 🚨
In April 2026 alone, the ShinyHunters extortion group breached ADT, Amtrak, and McGraw-Hill.
They didn't exploit zero-day vulnerabilities. They didn't deploy sophisticated server malware. Instead, they used a much simpler, highly effective tactic: compromised employee credentials. By quietly hijacking identity access to Salesforce environments, they exfiltrated millions of records without triggering a single network-based detection.
This isn't an anomaly. It is part of a massive, 5-year structural acceleration in privacy risk that organizations can no longer ignore:
📈 The Volume is Exploding: US data compromises cracked 3,300 annually, sitting at a sustained all-time high.
⛓️ The Blast Radius is Cascading: Supply chain and third-party attacks have doubled since 2021. Nearly 30% of all breaches now originate in the vendor ecosystem.
💰 The Cost is Skyrocketing: The average cost of a US data breach has hit a record $10.22 million, driven by a complex web of 20 conflicting state privacy laws.
The takeaway for security leaders? The perimeter has completely shifted. The controls that mattered a decade ago, like laptop encryption and physical security, aren't where today's danger lives.
@jacob Krellbroken down the full data, the shift from encryption to quiet data exfiltration, and the "transparency crisis" complicating it all in our latest deep dive.
👇 Read the full breakdown and learn how to proactively minimize your data blast radius:
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