Was coe.int hit by ransomware?

coe.int was listed by the shinyhunters ransomware operation (France), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the shinyhunters ransomware group?

shinyhunters is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the coe.int breach?

shinyhunters published data attributed to coe.int. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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Council of Europe

listed as coe.int · Claimed by Shinyhunters · listed 3 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Shinyhunters
Status: Data leaked
Country: France
Listed on leak site: Jun 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Council of Europe is an international organisation comprising 46 member states, headquartered in Strasbourg, France. It promotes human rights, democracy, and the rule of law across Europe through various bodies including the Secretariat, Parliamentary Assembly, and specialized directorates such as the EDQM (European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines).

Industry: International Government & Human Rights Organization
Address: Avenue de l'Europe, F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France
Employees: 10000+
Founded: 1949

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Exfiltration of 297 GB involving 429,000+ files with confirmed PII at massive scale (10,000+ employees, 409,000+ payslips), financial data (bank details, salaries), medical records, and sensitive governmental/international organisation data. This represents compromise of a major international public institution with spillover risk to 46 member states.

Shinyhunters claims exfiltration of 297 GB of HR and payroll data across multiple Council of Europe departments, including personnel files, payslips, CVs, and sensitive employee information. The group issued a final extortion demand with a deadline of 16 June 2026, threatening public data release and unspecified 'digital problems'.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

409,000+ payslips (2011-2026)
14,000+ CVs
3,700+ personnel files
10,700+ per-employee document stores
Full names and employee IDs
Home addresses and phone numbers
Dates of birth
Salaries and bank account details
Tax and social security information
Medical and absence records
Performance evaluations
Contract and purchase order records
Mission travel records
Interpreter scheduling data
2026 salary scales
Blue List rosters

What the group claims

Over 297 GB of Council of Europe HR and payroll data (429,000+ files) was compromised across the Secretariat, Directorate of Human Resources, Parliamentary Assembly, EDQM, permanent and temporary staff, interpreters, conference services, language booth units, and payroll administration, including 409,000+ payslips for 10,000+ staff from 2011 to 2026, 14,000+ CVs and 3,700+ in-house personnel files, 10,700+ per-employee document stores, contract and purchase order records, mission travel overpayments, interpreter scheduling and 2026 salary scales, Blue List rosters, absence and illness reports, bank account and URSSAF payroll data, performance evaluations, and payroll exports, covering full names, employee IDs, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, salaries, bank details, tax and social security information, medical and absence records, mission references, and other internal institutional data. This is a final warning to reach out by 16 June 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | Updated: 14 June 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK

Sources

Victim sitecoe.int

Source

Indexed 3 days ago

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Disclosure context

About shinyhunters

Based on the limited publicly available information, shinyhunters appears to be a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, and there is insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than sector-specific specialization. The group has reportedly victimized approximately 77 organizations, with primary targeting focused on the United States, France, Japan, Germany, and Australia, showing particular interest in consumer services, technology, financial services, transportation and logistics, and education sectors. Given the group's very recent emergence in late 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by established security research organizations, and no known law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group. The current operational status of shinyhunters remains active based on available reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from major security firms like Mandiant, CrowdStrike, or government agencies have not yet been published due to the group's recent appearance in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 132 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 3, 2025; most recent post June 17, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 14, 2026coe.int listed by shinyhunterson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by shinyhunters

shinyhunters has been linked to 132 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

Geographically, coe.int is reported in France, a country with 240 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by shinyhunters means coe.int appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CERT-FR (France), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on shinyhunters's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.