Council of Europe
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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.
Source: Ransomware.live
Post text · scraped from the leak site
Over 297 GB of Council of Europe HR and payroll data (429,000+ files) was compromised across the Secretariat, Directorate of Human Resources, Parliamentary Assembly, EDQM, permanent and temporary staff, interpreters, conference services, language booth units, and payroll administration, including 409,000+ payslips for 10,000+ staff from 2011 to 2026, 14,000+ CVs and 3,700+ in-house personnel files, 10,700+ per-employee document stores, contract and purchase order records, mission travel overpayments, interpreter scheduling and 2026 salary scales, Blue List rosters, absence and illness reports, bank account and URSSAF payroll data, performance evaluations, and payroll exports, covering full names, employee IDs, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, salaries, bank details, tax and social security information, medical and absence records, mission references, and other internal institutional data. This is a final warning to reach out by 16 June 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | Updated: 14 June 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK
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Incident timeline — mostly unverified
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Breach window unknown
Jun 13, 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
Evidence ladder
Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.
Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
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
- 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.
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.