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The University of Georgia Foundation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

May 14, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for The University of Georgia Foundation →

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Shadowbyt3$ 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: 2026-05-14

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

ShadowByt3$ has breached University of Georgia. The full data is on are leak site. We stole approximately 3.2 MB in raw text files. No customers were affected just exployees the following was stolen. - Physical Locations: Home addresses (like the Columbus, GA residential home) and specific office numbers (like Office 2207). - Private Contact Info: Personal cell phone numbers and home phone numbers (e.g., the 404-736-xxxx). - Employee Information: This often includes full names, contact details, and institutional identification photos. - Project Documentation: Information regarding internal university projects, including tracking logs and administrative data for various departments. - Workforce Data: Internal metadata such as position numbers, departmental assignments, and work schedules. - Technical Details: Notes regarding system maintenance and development that could potentially highlight internal processes - Critical Infrastructure: Active project maps for GEMA (Emergency Management), Georgia Broadband, and GDOT (Transportation) through 2026. - Government Records: Access to Asset Forfeiture logs and County-level GIS (Athens-Clarke, Bibb) that underpins 911 dispatch and land taxes. - Leadership Secrets: The UGA Office of the President Mail Tracker and Gov360 anonymous executive coaching logs. - The "SME" Map: we have identified the "Subject Matter Experts" like Noah Abouhamdan, Chad Rupert, and Pat Russell. we know exactly how many hundreds of hours these people have spent on specific pieces of code. - Security Clearances: we know who is a "Benefited" full-time employee (high-value target) versus a "Student Assistant" (low-value entry point).

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

May 14, 2026

Claim posted

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No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

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.

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

Source ceiling

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

About this groupFirst seen 2026-02-17

shadowbyt3$

According to ransomware.live, ShadowByt3$ is a ransomware-as-a-service group first observed in October 2025, using multi-method extortion and communicating via Telegram and Tox, with a very small confirmed victim list suggesting it remains in early-stage operation.

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