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Houston City College

bd_9b96288bbd092178 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jun 15, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%

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: 2026-06-15

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Hundreds of thousands of student records containing full name, home address, phone, email, date of birth, gender, ethnicity, enrollment status, GPA, major, and student ID across all campuses. Daily and full student roster exports library credentials, PINs, and @student[.hccs[.edu accounts. Over 12,000 financial aid and bursar reports including FAFSA/ISIR suspense data with names, birthdates, emails, phones, and home addresses. Class rosters with birthdates, grades, academic programs, and contact information for tens of thousands of enrolled students per term. Over 344,000 international student documents including SEVIS I-20 forms, visa applications, passports, bank statements, tax returns, immigration affidavits, and acceptance letters. Over 14,000 student immunization and vaccination records including meningitis compliance documentation. Over 15,000 additional health and immunization documents across report archives and A LOT more was compromised. This is a final warning to reach out by 18 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: 16 June 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Jun 15, 2026

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

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

Claim → filing

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 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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