University of Pennsylvania
Attack Intelligence
University of Pennsylvania was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to shinyhunters in February 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.
Records: 1.2M Records | Updated: 04 Feb 2026 | Note: Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | This is the direct result of advisors advising you against paying a ransom. It has the opposite effect. Do NOT provoke us again and pay the ransom when we contact you.
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.