ShinyHunters Pay Or Leak Extortion Campaign — Campaign Analysis & Threat Activity

Threat entity extracted from intelligence sources

Frequency
2
occurrences
First Seen
June 8, 2026
Last Seen
July 5, 2026

ShinyHunters Pay Or Leak Extortion Campaign is a threat campaign tracked across 2 threat clusters and 2 intelligence report mentions on ThreatCluster. First observed June 8, 2026; most recent activity July 5, 2026.

Related Threat Clusters

  • University of Nottingham Cyber Attack Linked to ShinyHunters Campaign

    In June 2026, the University of Nottingham experienced a cyber attack attributed to the ShinyHunters 'pay or leak' extortion campaign. The breach resulted in the publication of tens of gigabytes of sensitive data,…

    8 articles · Updated June 11, 2026
  • DentaQuest Data Breach Exposes 2.6 Million Accounts

    A data breach at DentaQuest, a major dental benefits administrator, has compromised the sensitive information of 2.6 million accounts. The breach was revealed by the extortion group ShinyHunters, which claimed to have…

    18 articles · Updated June 4, 2026

Recent Intelligence Reports

  • Denta Quest — haveibeenpwned.com · July 5, 2026
  • 396,313 unique email addresses have been leaked — haveibeenpwned.com · June 8, 2026

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