The Awareness Angle: Cyber Security Awareness and Human Risk
Jun 15, 2026 · 51 min · 13 segments
ShinyHunters breached the University of Nottingham using a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, leaking passport numbers, National Insurance numbers, disability data and financial records for 455,000…
ShinyHunters breach University of Nottingham and 100-plus organizations via an Oracle zero-day.
So the University of Nottingham have confirmed on the 10th of June that a significant amount of data from its student record system has been accessed by ShinyHunters, who obviously are probably the most prolific cyber criminal group around at the moment.
Have I Been Pwned, Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned, has added the dataset to its database, flagging around 455,000 unique email addresses.
Stolen data includes names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, course information, university IDs, national insurance numbers, ethnicity, disability information, passport numbers, and financial records.
So they've published the data after Nottingham reportedly refused to pay, and there's an archive over 19 gigabytes available.
So a Google threat intelligence report published Thursday afternoon corroborated ShinyHunters' claims to have compromised more than 100 organizations.
But they commented that it was like the name ShinyHunters, like it was a bit of a ...
It's not the scariest of names, is it? And I said it reminded me of like a '90s American late-night TV show.
You know, you can just imagine like a band of superheroes wearing like shiny suits, like stopping crime and stuff.
ShinyHunters breach University of Nottingham and 100-plus organizations via an Oracle zero-day.
So the University of Nottingham have confirmed on the 10th of June that a significant amount of data from its student record system has been accessed by ShinyHunters, who obviously are probably the most prolific cyber criminal group around at the moment.
Have I Been Pwned, Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned, has added the dataset to its database, flagging around 455,000 unique email addresses.
Stolen data includes names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, course information, university IDs, national insurance numbers, ethnicity, disability information, passport numbers, and financial records.
So they've published the data after Nottingham reportedly refused to pay, and there's an archive over 19 gigabytes available.
So a Google threat intelligence report published Thursday afternoon corroborated ShinyHunters' claims to have compromised more than 100 organizations.
But they commented that it was like the name ShinyHunters, like it was a bit of a ...
It's not the scariest of names, is it? And I said it reminded me of like a '90s American late-night TV show.
You know, you can just imagine like a band of superheroes wearing like shiny suits, like stopping crime and stuff.
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