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TransUnion

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Severity

High

Discovered

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Filed

Jun 28, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

15 records

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for TransUnion →11 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Shinyhunters on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Financial ServicesDiscovered: 2025-10-03

Source: Ransomware.live

Company description · AI-generated by the aggregator, not the leak post

TransUnion is a global credit reporting agency that provides credit information and analytics services to businesses and individual consumers. It collects and aggregates information on over a billion individual consumers in over thirty countries including "Big Three" credit-reporting agencies in the United States. The data they handle includes credit history, credit scoring, and personal information protection services.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 28, 2025

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

This record's own dates cannot anchor compliance clocks; see the linked filings.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This leak-site claim is one of 15 records about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 72d gap

Showing first 10 of 14 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 10 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Aug 27 (CA), last Sep 8 (NE) — a 12-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 14 — the full spread may be wider.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-23

shinyhunters

According to ransomware.live, ShinyHunters is a financially motivated data-theft and extortion group active since 2020, responsible for high-profile breaches including Ticketmaster (via Snowflake) and PowerSchool; by 2025 they launched a RaaS offering called "shinysp1d3r," and in August 2025 French authorities arrested four members.

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