Harvard, UPenn Data Leaked in ShinyHunters Shakedown

Leaked Financial and Admissions Data Includes Contact Details for 'Top Donors' Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • February 4, 2026

Cyber extortion group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility Wednesday for late 2025 attacks against Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, publishing on a darkweb leak site what they claimed were more than 2 million records stolen from the two Ivy League schools.

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Threat intelligence firm Hudson Rock, which reviewed the leaked Harvard data, said it includes admissions and fundraising information, and details such as "top donors," as well as spouses, widows, parents, current students and family members who are prospective students. This serves not only as a "social graph" revealing "wealth bands" and details of "domestic intimacy," the firm said.

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