Kodak confirms data breach after ShinyHunters claims 2.2M records
The ShinyHunters gang on Monday claims it has stolen more than 2.2 million customer and corporate records from Eastman Kodak, targeting the American photography giant as part of its latest “pay or leak” ransomware campaign.
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Kodak confirms an unauthorized third party “illegally” gained temporary access to company data after ShinyHunters on Monday claimed it stole more than 2.2 million customer and corporate records from the photography giant.
- Kodak confirms an unauthorized third party temporarily accessed a limited amount of company data.
- The statement comes after ShinyHunters claimed it stole more than 2.2 million Kodak customer and corporate records as part of its latest “pay or leak” extortion campaign.
- ShinyHunters warned Kodak to reach out by June 18th or face a public data leak and “digital” problems.
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Kodak confirms unathorized access
The upstate New York-based imaging technology company was posted on the ShinyHunters leak site, along with a final warning to reach out to the prolific ransomware group within 2 days or risk having its sensitive data leaked publicly.
“This is a final warning to reach out by June 18th, 2026, before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way," ShinyHunters wrote.
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Kodak has confirmed the incident to Cybernews, saying it “recently discovered that an unauthorized third party illegally gained temporary access to a limited amount of company data.”
Although the company did not disclose what data was compromised, Kodak said it “promptly engaged external cybersecurity experts to support an investigation of what data was accessed and copied.”
Kodak also said it is working with law enforcement and is confident there is “no threat to our systems or operations.”
“We will share additional updates as appropriate,” the company said.
No proof posted yet
ShinyHunters alleges it exfiltrated “over 2.2 million records containing customer PII and other internal corporate data,” although it has not posted any proof samples to back up its massive claim.
Kodak did not say whether the unauthorized access is connected to ShinyHunters’ claim.
The nearly 150-year-old company, which has undergone a complete restructuring since filing for bankruptcy in 2012, has morphed into a primarily business-to-business (B2B) technology and manufacturing corporation.
Its core offerings include commercial digital printing, manufacturing motion picture and still film, producing advanced chemicals for pharmaceuticals and batteries, and licensing its own brand.
ShinyHunters keeps on rolling
ShinyHunters has been steamrolling through the names of hundreds of high-profile corporate victims since last September, the majority connected to a worldwide campaign exploiting more than 1.5 million records tied to misconfigured Salesforce instances.
The cybercriminal cartel has also kept busy executing its most recent June hacking spree targeting a critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft software.
Big names claimed in the past week alone include Madison Square Garden and a theft of 26 million customer and corporate records, a breach of fashion house Ralph Lauren involving 220 GB of customer PII and transaction information, as well as “hundreds of thousands of records” containing Social Security numbers, W-2 tax forms, and government ID scans from the American department store chain JCPenney.
Also appearing on the gang's dark victim blog on Monday were Sysco Corporation, with more than 61 million Salesforce records allegedly stolen from the US food distributor, and Houston City College in Texas, with hundreds of thousands of student records purportedly compromised.
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