University Of Georgia
About the organisation
ShadowByt3$ has breached University of Georgia. The full data is on are leak site. We stole approximately 3.2 MB in raw text files. No customers were affected just exployees the following was stolen. - Physical Locations: Home addresses (like the Columbus, GA residential home) and specific office numbers (like Office 2207). - Private Contact Info: Personal cell phone numbers and home phone numbers (e.g., the 404-736-xxxx). - Employee Information: This often includes full names, contact details, and institutional identification photos. - Project Documentation: Information regarding internal university projects, including tracking logs and administrative data for various departments. - Workforce Data: Internal metadata such as position numbers, departmental assignments, and work schedules. - Technical Details: Notes regarding system maintenance and development that could potentially highlight internal processes - Critical Infrastructure: Active project maps for GEMA (Emergency Management), Georgia Broadband, and GDOT (Transportation) through 2026. - Government Records: Access to Asset Forfeiture logs and County-level GIS (Athens-Clarke, Bibb) that underpins 911 dispatch and land taxes. - Leadership Secrets: The UGA Office of the President Mail Tracker and Gov360 anonymous executive coaching logs. - The "SME" Map: we have identified the "Subject Matter Experts" like Noah Abouhamdan, Chad Rupert, and Pat Russell. we know exactly how many hundreds of hours these people have spent on specific pieces of code. - Security Clearances: we know who is a "Benefited" full-time employee (high-value target) versus a "Student Assistant" (low-value entry point).
What the listing means
University Of Georgia appeared on the shadowbyt3$ leak site on 14 May 2026. Groups publish a victim once negotiations stall or as pressure during them, so a listing usually means data was already exfiltrated. This group has not published new claims in the last 30 days.
Recommended actions
- Treat any unsolicited message referencing University Of Georgia as suspicious — leaked data gets weaponised for phishing within days.
- If you hold an account on uga.edu, change that password now, update it anywhere you reused it, and enable two-factor authentication.
- Other Education organisations should review this group's known TTPs and validate detection coverage against them.
- Watch for follow-on extortion: stolen data is often re-leaked or resold after the initial listing.
- A leak-site listing is a claim made by the attacker, not a confirmed breach — check the organisation's own disclosures before acting on it.
Leak-site evidence
Listing URL https://www.ransomware.live/id/VW5pdmVyc2l0eSBPZiBHZW9yZ2lhQHNoYWRvd2J5dDMk