Ransomware victim disclosure

UEI College

Claimed by termite · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
May 30, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: termite
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Education
Listed on leak site: May 30, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

UEI College is a private for-profit career college operating across seven US states (California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Georgia). It provides short-term technical and vocational training programs to prepare students for entry-level positions in healthcare, business, and skilled trades.

Industry: For-Profit Career College & Vocational Education

Attack summary

Severity: medium — Confirmed data publication by ransomware group affecting an educational institution with multi-state student enrollment. However, no specific data categories, proof file count, or regulatory sensitivity details are articulated in the truncated post.

The termite group claims to have breached UEI College and published data. The specific data exfiltrated and operational impact are not detailed in the available post excerpt.

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Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

student records
enrollment data
institutional records

What the group claims

UEI College is a private for-profit career college with locations in the US states of California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, and Georgia. It specializes in short-term technical and vocational education to prepare students for entry-level positions in industries such as healthcare, business, and skilled trades.

Sources

Victim sitewww.uei.edu
Leak posthttp://termiteuslbumdge2zmfmfcsrvmvsfe4gvyudc5j6cdnisnhtftvokid.onion/post/6a14cce8c684b738d5259940

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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Disclosure context

About termite

Termite is a recently emerged ransomware group that first appeared in November 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and affiliations remain largely undocumented by major threat intelligence providers, though their targeting of primarily Western nations including the United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada suggests a non-Western operational base. With 39 documented victims across healthcare, telecommunications, business services, and technology sectors within just a few months of operation, Termite demonstrates an aggressive deployment strategy, though specific details regarding their initial access vectors, encryption methodologies, and whether they employ double or triple extortion tactics have not been publicly documented by established security research organizations. The group's relatively recent emergence means that notable high-profile campaigns and specific technical indicators have not yet been extensively analyzed or reported by authoritative sources such as CISA, FBI, or major cybersecurity firms. Termite appears to remain active as of early 2025, though the limited public documentation suggests they may be a smaller-scale operation or have not yet attracted significant attention from major threat intelligence organizations. The group has been linked to 45 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on November 17, 2024; most recent post May 30, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

May 30, 2026UEI College listed by termiteon the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 694 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, UEI College is reported in US, a country with 2,714 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

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.