JCPenney

jcpenny.com

Trustworthiness

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accounts: 368,418
Breach happened: 12 June 2026
Added to the register: 20 June 2026

In June 2026, retailer JCPenney and associated brands were targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data allegedly obtained from JCPenney through the exploitation of a critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft was later published publicly. The exposed records indicated they primarily related to internal HR systems and impacted current and former employees. The data included 368k corporate and personal email addresses, names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, phone numbers and home addresses.

What leaked

Identity documents

It never changes, so it stays useful to a fraudster for life — and can open accounts or credit in your name.

Identity theft →
Phone number

Used for calls and texts that open already knowing who you are.

Fake adviser calls →
Postal address

Used to stage a delivery, a utility visit or a neighbour that never happened.

Social engineering →
Date of birth

Used to clear the “confirm your identity” step on a call you did not make.

Identity theft →
Email address

The address every one of these scams will arrive at.

Phishing →
Employer & job

Who to impersonate, and who to impersonate them to.

Spear phishing →
Name

Used to make a cold approach look like a conversation already under way.

Social engineering →

What is not listed

Passwords
Bank details
Card numbers

So there is no password to change here — the usual first move does not apply.

The record shows what was found in the data. Not listed is not the same as proven untouched.

Source

A specialist service holds the stolen data, checks it is genuine, and lets anyone search their own address in it. The strongest evidence short of an official source.

Verification service

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Collects leaked files, checks they are genuine, and lets anyone search their own address in them. Run by one security researcher since 2013.

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