Harvard University
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Full breach record for Harvard University →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
Size: 1.1GB (compressed) | 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.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.ransomware.live/
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 4, 2026
- Raw hash
- 77f7c7911f2ba1192161133f79949fdce8de992e215ecdd311703eec1cb0aa52
Reporting entity
- Name
- shinyhunters
Victim entity
- Name
- Harvard Universitynorm: harvard university
- Industry
- Educationllm
What this source establishes
- Source ceiling
- A leak-site claim can't tell us: discovery date · materiality · notification · affected count · confirmed data types · compliance clock. These stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.
- Attack vector
- Ransomware· shinyhunters
- Threat actor
- ShinyhuntersExternalFinancial
Compliance
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.