Udemy, Inc. (udemy.com)

Udemy, Inc. (udemy.com) was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to shinyhunters in April 2026. The organization, operating in the Education sector in United States, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

shinyhunters operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.

Over 1.4M records containing PII and other internal corporate data have been compromised. Pay or Leak. This is a final warning to reach out by 27 Apr 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline.

Intelligence correlations link this incident to 1 vulnerability(ies) including CVE-2026-35273, which may have been leveraged as initial access vectors or for lateral movement.