Nottingham Trent University
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Full breach record for Nottingham Trent University →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.
Source: Ransomware.live
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We breached Knottingham trent University on August 19th 2026 by gaining access through webapps.ntu.ac.uk. We alerted the university which they know they have been breached they locked out are access after stealing the following below High-Risk Sensitive PII - Passport Numbers & Details: Stolen via the raw PDF copies of the applicants' physical passports - Dates of Birth: Specifically exposed on the main data profile screen - Nationalities & Countries of Birth: Confirmed via the legal passport logs and the registration metadata fields. Contact & Location PII - Full Legal Names: Animesh Shukla and Abhinand Unnikrishnan - Personal Email Addresses: Exposed via the portal login view (`[REDACTED-EMAIL]`). - Mobile Phone Numbers: Explicitly collected on the dashboard contact view (`7080809422`). - Permanent & Correspondence Home Addresses: Complete street-level addresses mapping out exact house numbers, apartment complexes, districts, and postal ZIP codes spanning across Lucknow (226001) and Delhi (110024). Academic & Professional History PII - While non-sensitive on its own, hackers use this deeply personal context to write highly convincing scam letters - Complete Academic History: Stolen via the raw transcript files (`Degree Transcript.pdf` `10TH`, and `12TH` grade completion papers), showing exact grade percentages, modules studied, and prior school names. - Employment & Professional History: Stolen directly out of the `CV.pdf` file, mapping out their previous job titles and career timelines - Professional Reference Names: Stolen via the Letters of Recommendation (`LOR.pdf`), which reveal the names, titles, and institutions of the professors or employers who recommended them. mirror 1: https://anonfilesnew.com/s/FXB5-I_XtWl mirror 2: https://pixeldrain.com/u/XXWv2geH This is a warning to all companies to comply it's that easy and simple. I
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Aug 25, 2026
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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.
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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.