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University of Nottingham - 454,635 breached accounts

In June 2026, , later linked to a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Tens of gigabytes of data were subsequently published online and included 455k unique email addresses along with extensive personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers, ethnicities, disabilities, passport numbers and information relating to academic enrolments and fee payments. , the university advised that the breach affected both "current students, and alumni". the University of Nottingham was the target of a cyber attack In a post about the incident