2026 HEC Pakistan — forum claim of 1.5M+ centralized education records (May 29)
Data compromised
Alleged CNIC, names, contacts, demographics, and education records per forum marketing
Technical writeup
On May 29, 2026, cybercrime forum marketing alleged a “fresh” dump from Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) centralized database with more than 1.5 million citizen records, including CNIC numbers, parental names, emails, mobile numbers, demographics, and addresses, with public samples offered for verification. HEC had not published a matching incident notice in indexed English trade press at catalog time; BreachHistory classifies the entry as an unverified forum claim with high sensitivity if validated (identity theft, SIM-swap, and targeted espionage risk).
Root cause
Criminal forum data-sale claim (unverified)