# University of Nottingham breached by ShinyHunters ransomware group

Published: 2026-06-09 · Severity: high · Sectors: education
Canonical: https://vorant.io/reports/72afb1ee-7398-5e7e-aecd-5e9c1232cb4e/university-of-nottingham-breached-by-shinyhunters-ransomware-group

> ShinyHunters claims breach of University of Nottingham with 5,611 compromised users and 338 employee accounts.

The University of Nottingham has been listed as a victim by ShinyHunters, a ransomware and data extortion group. According to the breach listing on ransomware.live, the incident resulted in compromise of 5,611 user accounts, 338 employee credentials, and 637 third-party employee credentials. The external attack surface enumeration identified 178 DNS records associated with the victim's domain. The disclosure appears to be part of a data extortion campaign where the threat actor claims access to institutional data. This represents a significant breach of a major UK research institution with potential exposure of academic, staff, and administrative data.

## Mentioned in this report

- Threat actors: ShinyHunters
- Malware: ShinyHunters

2 detections for this report are in the app: the rules that match its indicators, the Sigma rules already converted to Splunk SPL, to Elastic where their fields map onto Elastic's integrations and to Microsoft Defender XDR KQL wherever Defender records the activity, and the YARA and Suricata. A new account gets three days of them free.

Source reporting: https://www.ransomware.live/id/bm90dGluZ2hhbS5hYy51a0BzaGlueWh1bnRlcnM=

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