Think of this way: you're setting $cluster{$user} to a reference to the same array every time. Why would you expect a different value?

A simple rewrite that does what you want is to use an anonymous array reference right up front: 

while (<>)
{
    chomp;
    $ref = [ split ];     # new anon.array every iteration
    $user = shift @$ref;
    $cluster{$user} = $ref;
}

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Some cleanup is possible (mainly using strict and tightening up the code a bit), but I wanted to make the line-by-line correspondence to your code clear.

HTH

Update
Took out a confusing sentence....

In reply to Re: Arrary ref stored in hash always points to the same array? by VSarkiss
in thread Arrary ref stored in hash always points to the same array? by Anonymous Monk

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