2026 Glendale Community College — ShinyHunters extortion; ~794K emails on HIBP (Jun)
Data compromised
HIBP-indexed ~793.9K unique emails plus names, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth, government IDs, genders, and academic enrollment records; GCC notice cites possible SSNs and driver's license numbers varying by individual
Technical writeup
Verified community-college breach — June–July 2026. Glendale Community College (California) reported a cybersecurity incident on June 16, 2026 after ShinyHunters marketed stolen data in a pay-or-leak extortion campaign. Forensics and notification review found potentially impacted records that may include names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, contact details, and enrollment-related information varying by person. Have I Been Pwned loaded the published corpus July 11, 2026 with 793,900 unique email addresses plus associated personal and academic fields. GCC is offering credit monitoring to potentially impacted individuals. BreachHistory indexes the HIBP-attested email count and company-confirmed disclosure.
Root cause
ShinyHunters pay-or-leak extortion campaign against Glendale Community College; incident detected June 16, 2026