glendale.edu

glendale.edu was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to shinyhunters in June 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 62 gigabytes of Glendale Community College data (304,000+ files) was compromised across PeopleSoft Campus Solutions (GCC, integrations, financial aid, and admission processing), including 150,000+ student records with names, dates of birth, and @student.glendale.edu emails, login and enrollment mapping files, new student enrollment CSVs, immunization compliance logs, admission checklist reports, financial aid batch exports, and transcript PDFs spanning September 2020 through June 2026. This is a final warning to reach out by 18 June 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. | Updated: 16 June 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK

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.