Data breach
Houston City Collegehccs.edu
831 642 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2026-06-16.
Breached2026-06-16Added to HIBP2026-07-28 UTCUpdated by HIBP2026-07-28 UTCAccounts831 642Domainhccs.edu
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In June 2026, Houston City College was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data allegedly obtained from the college was later published publicly and included 832k unique email addresses along with names, addresses, phone numbers, academic records, and other personal information relating to both current students and alumni.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Academic records
- Citizenship statuses
- Dates of birth
- Email addresses
- Genders
- Names
- Phone numbers
- Physical addresses
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC