Houston City College
June 16, 2026
•[ extortion, leak, education ]
In June 2026, Houston City College was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data allegedly obtained from the college was later published publicly and included 832k unique email addresses along with names, addresses, phone numbers, academic records, and other personal information relating to both current students and alumni.
Empower Group
April 15, 2026
•[ data leak, personally identifiable information, finance ]
DragonForce reportedly claimed responsibility for a breach of Empower Group, a New York-based alternative financing provider, and claimed to have exfiltrated approximately 316GB of data. DataBreach later indexed 6,691,415 rows allegedly tied to the breach, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, names, and street addresses. Public sources did not confirm file encryption or operational disruption.
Parque Eólico Toabré
March 31, 2026
•[ cyberattack, data leak, ransomware ]
Everest claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against Parque Elico Toabr on March 31, 2026 and threatened to release sensitive data. La Estrella de Panam later listed Parque Elico Toabr among Panamanian technology incidents dated May 9, 2026, and other dark-web monitoring reported an alleged 175GB database leak. Public reporting did not confirm encryption, data destruction, operational disruption, or compromise of wind-farm control systems.
Pitney Bowes
April 8, 2026
•[ phishing, extortion, data leak ]
Pitney Bowes identified unauthorized access to certain records in its Salesforce customer relationship management environment on April 9, 2026, after a phishing attack compromised an employee email account the previous night. ShinyHunters claimed to have obtained Pitney Bowes data as part of a broader extortion campaign and later released data containing 8.2 million unique email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and some employee job-title records. Irish reporting separately confirmed that 137 Revenue Commissioners employees were affected through the Pitney Bowes supplier breach, with professional contact details exposed but no Revenue passwords or taxpayer data stolen.
Udemy, Inc.
April 24, 2026
•[ data leak, extortion, ShinyHunters ]
ShinyHunters listed Udemy in a pay-or-leak extortion attempt on April 24, 2026 and subsequently leaked data containing 1.4 million unique email addresses belonging to customers and instructors, along with names, physical addresses, phone numbers, employer information, and instructor payout methods. Public reporting did not confirm encryption, deletion, or operational disruption.
Aman Resorts
April 18, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, PII ]
ShinyHunters named Aman Resorts in an April 2026 pay-or-leak extortion campaign and claimed compromise of over 500,000 Salesforce CRM records containing PII. DataBreach indexed 294,871 rows, while Have I Been Pwned reported over 200,000 unique email addresses and said the leaked data also included names, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth, nationalities, spouse names, and VIP status codes. Public sources did not confirm encryption, data destruction, or operational disruption.
Powell Electronics
May 7, 2026
•[ data breach, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), extortion ]
PayoutsKING claimed responsibility for an attack on Powell Electronics and threatened to release sensitive data unless the company negotiated. DataBreach indexed 198,676 rows with names, email addresses, phone numbers, and street addresses. Later breach-notification reporting said Powell began notifying affected individuals that data including Social Security numbers and driver's license information had been accessed. Public reporting did not confirm encryption, data destruction, or attacker-caused operational disruption.
Grafana Labs
May 11, 2026
•[ source code leak, extortion, compromised credentials ]
Grafana Labs confirmed that a cybercrime group used a compromised GitHub token to access its GitHub repositories and download its codebase and internal GitHub repository content. The attackers demanded ransom to prevent disclosure, but Grafana said customer production systems, Grafana Cloud, customer operations, customer data, and personal information from production systems were not compromised.
At least one unnamed victim organization
January 1, 2026
•[ social engineering, credential theft, MFA manipulation ]
MuddyWater, an Iran-linked APT associated with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), used Microsoft Teams social engineering against an unnamed victim organization in early 2026. The attackers established remote access, stole credentials, manipulated MFA protections, deployed AnyDesk and DWAgent for persistence, moved laterally, harvested VPN configuration files and other sensitive data, and exfiltrated information. The attackers later sent extortion emails referencing Chaos ransomware and directed the victim to a Chaos leak site, but reporting said no file-encrypting ransomware was deployed, indicating the ransomware framing was likely a false flag for espionage activity.
Trellix
May 5, 2026
•[ source code leakage, unauthorized access, cyberattack ]
Trellix disclosed unauthorized access to a portion of its source code repository in May 2026. RansomHouse later claimed responsibility and published screenshots as proof of access. Trellix said it had found no evidence that its source-code release or distribution process was affected or that its source code had been exploited. Public reporting did not confirm encryption, data destruction, operational disruption, or customer data exposure.
University of Nottingham
June 9, 2026
•[ cyber attack, extortion, data leak ]
In June 2026, the University of Nottingham was the target of a cyber attack, later linked to a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Tens of gigabytes of data were subsequently published online and included 455k unique email addresses along with extensive personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers, ethnicities, disabilities, passport numbers and information relating to academic enrolments and fee payments. In a post about the incident, the university advised that the breach affected both "current students, and alumni".
BCD Travel
May 29, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, data theft ]
In May 2026, the corporate travel management company BCD Travel was claimed as a victim of the ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data allegedly obtained from BCD was subsequently published publicly in early June and contained 396k unique email addresses. Other exposed data included names, addresses, phone numbers, job titles and employer names, spanning a variety of different data sets including leads, internal staff and support tickets.
DentaQuest
May 23, 2026
•[ data leak, extortion, healthcare ]
In May 2026, the dental benefits administrator DentaQuest was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign that resulted in the group publicly publishing hundreds of gigabytes of data allegedly obtained from the company. The data included 2.6M unique email addresses along with names, addresses and phone numbers. Much of the data appeared in healthcare enrollment files (ASC X12 transaction sets) with some containing Medicaid IDs, while additional data appeared in member records and related files. DentaQuest acknowledged "a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited portion of our network", and advised they had contained the attack and mitigated the threat.
Mytheresa
April 12, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, ShinyHunters ]
In April 2026, the luxury fashion e-commerce platform Mytheresa was listed as a victim of the ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion group. After the ransom deadline passed, the group publicly released the data which contained 84k unique email addresses. The exposed data also included names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases and partial credit card data including card type, last 4 digits and expiry date.
Kemper
April 15, 2026
•[ ransomware, social engineering, extortion ]
In April 2026, the American insurance holding company Kemper Corporation was named by the ShinyHunters ransomware group in a "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The attackers allegedly accessed Kemper's Salesforce environment via social engineering as part of a broader campaign targeting hundreds of organisations using the same method. The group later published tens of gigabytes of data they claimed included internal directory data, Salesforce records and Stripe payment logs. Among the 269k unique email addresses were names, phone numbers, physical addresses and partial payment card data including the last 4 digits, expiry dates and card brands. Kemper confirmed the incident and stated they had engaged third-party cybersecurity experts and notified law enforcement.
Charter
May 23, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, ShinyHunters ]
In May 2026, the telecommunications company Charter Communications (the parent company behind the consumer broadband and cable brand Spectrum) was named by the ShinyHunters group in a "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group later published the data, which exposed 4.9M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. A subset of approximately 85k records originating from an internal employee directory also included job titles. Charter confirmed the incident, but stated that no sensitive personal information or customer proprietary network information (CPNI) was exfiltrated.
Ameriprise
March 2, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, ShinyHunters ]
In March 2026, the financial services firm Ameriprise Financial was named by the ShinyHunters group in a "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group claimed possession of more than 200GB of compressed data exfiltrated from Ameriprise's Salesforce environment and internal SharePoint infrastructure, and subsequently published the data after negotiations allegedly failed. The published data contained 500k unique email addresses as well as names, phone numbers, physical addresses and employer information. In their disclosure to state attorneys general, Ameriprise reported 47,876 affected people; the larger email address population represents contacts from Ameriprise's broader operational systems, including internal staff. Ameriprise further advised that they have "implemented heightened monitoring of your account(s) to include enhanced identity verification procedures".
7-Eleven
April 8, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, ShinyHunters ]
In April 2026, 7-Eleven was the victim of a "pay or leak" extortion campaign by ShinyHunters, with the data later published that month. The incident exposed 185k unique email addresses, along with names, physical addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers. A small number of records also contained additional exposed data fields. The company later advised the breach was limited to "certain 7-Eleven systems used to store franchisee documents", a statement consistent with the exposed data.
Addi
March 25, 2026
•[ fintech, data breach, extortion ]
In March 2026, the Colombian fintech company Addi identified unauthorised activity on its platform and advised customers that "it is possible that your personal information may have been compromised". The "pay or leak" extortion group ShinyHunters subsequently claimed responsibility and published a large trove of personal data allegedly obtained from Addi. The data included 34M unique email addresses from credit scoring requests, credit bureau records, customer identity records and email validation logs. It also contained government issued IDs (Cdula de Ciudadana), estimated income, socioeconomic levels, purchases and other credit-related data points.
Canada Life
April 20, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, phishing ]
In April 2026, Canada Life was the victim of a "pay or leak" extortion campaign by the ShinyHunters group. The group subsequently published the data which contained over 200k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and, in some cases, customer support tickets. In their disclosure notice, Canada Life advised that "it is a small proportion of our customers who may have been impacted". In the wake of the incident, Canada Life also published an alert cautioning customers to be wary of phishing attacks, a pattern often seen after the public release of breached data.
