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The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 4, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

17 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania3 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: EducationDiscovered: 2026-02-24

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Records: 1.2M Records | Updated: 04 Feb 2026 | Note: Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | This is the direct result of advisors advising you against paying a ransom. It has the opposite effect. Do NOT provoke us again and pay the ransom when we contact you.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Feb 4, 2026

Claim posted

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 17 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Show 6 more filingsup to 70d gap

Showing first 10 of 16 linked disclosures.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Dec 1 (CA), last Apr 15 (WA) — a 135-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 16 — 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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