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Lead Company (Leadership Boulevard)

bd_f25295ce1dc9abce · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Jun 3, 2026

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Lead Company (Leadership Boulevard)

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: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2026-06-03

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Company Site: leadschool.in size: 765.9MB This is will be quick. The following schools are affected: The specific schools explicitly named in the exfiltrated folders include: - Arya Vidyapith - Aakarsh International Public School - Students High School - Rainbow International Matric Hr. Sec. School - Vignan Private School The following info was stolen: 1. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of Students - Full Names and Demographics: Complete names of children sorted by gender and admission numbers. - Academic Progression: Exact tracking of student grade levels (e.g., SKG, Class 1, Class 2) and division assignments - Age and Vital Records: Exact dates of birth (DOB) for all enrolled students. - Physical Locations: Full residential addresses, cities/districts (such as Nampally, Telangana), and exact localized postal pincodes 2. Guardian and Parent Contact Registries - Parent Identity: Full names of both fathers and mothers linked directly to their children. - Direct Contact Methods: Active personal mobile numbers for parents, creating a severe vulnerability for automated spam or voice-phishing attacks. - Digital Contact: Parent email addresses intended for formal school updates. - Student Led Events - Teacher Certificates - gac-reports - Assessments 3. Proprietary LEAD School Academic Metrics - ELGA Placement Data: Internal academic tracking metrics, showing specific curriculum tiers like "ELGA Class" (e.g., ELGA02, ELGA06) and "ELGA Division" for individual students. - Classroom Analytics: Operational performance data exfiltrated directly from the nucleus.leadschool.in administrative portal. - Teacher Resources: Lesson plans, training modules, and classroom resources that form the core commercial assets of the LEAD platform.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

Jun 3, 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 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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