Glendale Community College: a data breach
In June 2026, Glendale Community College was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign . Data allegedly obtained from Glendale was later published online and included almost 800k unique email addresses along with various other data fields, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and other information relating to student enrolments. In its disclosure notice , the college advised that "the potentially impacted information may vary for each individual and may include all or just one of the above-listed types of information".
The record
- Organisation
- Glendale Community College →
- Identity
- Glendale Community Collegeidentified by its domain in a verified breach record
- Records affected
- 793,925 records
- Data exposed
- Academic records, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Government issued IDs, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
- Sector
- Not recorded
- Occurred
- 2026-06-15
- Disclosed
- 2026-07-11
- First recorded here
- 2026-09-09
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Sources (2)
More than one source reported this. Agreement across independent sources is the strongest signal available, and the order below is the order they reported.
- California Attorney General ↗First reported
2026-06-23
2026-07-11