Cushman & Wakefield Inc. 2026 Data Breach
Business Services / Commercial Real Estate Services / Global brokerage, advisory and property management / Global (US-headquartered)
Cushman & Wakefield Inc. 2026 Data Breach
One of the world's largest commercial real estate services firms, providing brokerage, capital markets, valuation and property management across ~60 countries.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
34/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
2.2M rowsRecords
2026Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Breach Summary
In 2026, Cushman & Wakefield was compromised through ShinyHunters' Salesforce social-engineering campaign, which used voice-phishing of employees to reach the CRM environment (confirmed by the company). ShinyHunters claimed about 500,000 Salesforce records; roughly 310,400 unique accounts were indexed by Have I Been Pwned. This entry tracks about 2.2 million circulating records, and the incident was also listed by the Qilin group in a separate claim.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
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2.2M rows records analyzed
About Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
Cushman & Wakefield is one of the world's largest commercial real estate services firms, founded in 1917 and headquartered in Chicago. It provides brokerage, leasing, capital markets, valuation, project management and property and facilities management to owners and occupiers across roughly 60 countries, with tens of thousands of employees worldwide.
Why They Hold Your Data
As a commercial real estate services firm, Cushman & Wakefield holds client, tenant, investor and employee records including names, business contact details, transaction and property data, and internal documents, much of it managed in CRM platforms such as Salesforce.
Recent Developments
Cushman & Wakefield confirmed a breach tied to the 2026 ShinyHunters Salesforce campaign, with data dated around May 2026; ShinyHunters claimed roughly 500,000 Salesforce records and the entry was also listed by Qilin in a dual claim. The firm continues normal operations.
Data Points Exposed
3 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
Phone Number
Breach Impact
The breach exposes a large base of commercial real estate clients, tenants, investors and employees, enabling business-impersonation fraud in high-value property transactions where wire fraud is a known risk. Dual listing by ShinyHunters and Qilin compounds scrutiny of the firm's CRM security and creates multi-jurisdiction notification exposure.
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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Threat Actor: ShinyHuntersConfidence: High
Motivation: Financial extortion, data sale
A prolific data theft and extortion group that began as a database theft and resale actor and evolved toward SaaS-focused extortion. Recent activity involves vishing, credential harvesting, SSO compromise, and theft of customer data from cloud and SaaS environments.
This breach is linked to the ShinyHunters / Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters - Salesforce (2025-26) campaign. See the full campaign analysis →
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