From the Daily Pennsylvanian: Last October, the notorious cybercrime group ShinyHunters infiltrated Penn’s internal data system and demanded a $1 million ransom from the University to prevent the release of the files on the dark web. After the ransom went unpaid, the hackers surfaced online to take credit for the attack and set the record straight. Since 2019, ShinyHunters has gained notoriety in the hacking community for orchestrating large-scale attacks on major corporations such as Google, AT&T Wireless, Ticketmaster, and SoundCloud. This fall, the group set its sights on Penn. “We decided to hit Penn same-day,” a spokesperson for the group said via Signal, an encrypted messaging app. “Some planning and preparation goes into attacking a new organisation, but we can move pretty quickly.”
Requests for comment were left with a University spokesperson... ShinyHunters released the cache of confidential University files — including dated records and donor contact information — on its website on Feb. 4...
Full story at https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/02/penn-hack-donor-data-ransom-one-million-shinyhunters-gse-emai.
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