On June 9, 2026, the University of Nottingham appeared on the leak site of the ShinyHunters ransomware group. More than 40 GB of internal files containing billing records, payment details, student finance data, and campus portal exports from its UK, Malaysia, and China campuses were allegedly exfiltrated. The compressed archive measures 19 GB and includes names, home addresses, postcodes, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, payer contact information, transaction amounts, IP addresses, and credit card details.
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What Public Reporting Shows
Public reporting indicates the data was taken during a ransomware incident and later published on the group’s leak site. The files cover students, staff, and payers connected to the university’s three campuses. Available details list the exposed information as billing and payment records, student finance data, and internal campus portal exports. The sample provided on the leak site contains the types of personal and financial records described above. The university has not yet issued a public statement confirming the exact number of individuals affected.
Why This Matters for You and Your Family
If you or any member of your family attended, worked at, or paid fees to the University of Nottingham or its international campuses in the past decade, your personal information may now be in the hands of criminals. Full names, home addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and email addresses combined with payment records create a rich profile that identity thieves can exploit for years. Credit card details and student finance data raise the immediate risk of fraudulent charges or loan applications in your name. Even if you were not directly enrolled, payer records mean parents who funded tuition could also be exposed.
Once this information reaches underground forums, it rarely disappears. Criminals combine it with data from earlier breaches to build detailed dossiers on ordinary people like you.