Was Lead Company (Leadership Boulevard) hit by ransomware?

Lead Company (Leadership Boulevard) was listed by the ShadowByt3$ ransomware operation, 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 ShadowByt3$ ransomware group?

ShadowByt3$ 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 Lead Company (Leadership Boulevard) breach?

ShadowByt3$ published data attributed to Lead Company (Leadership Boulevard). Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

Ransomware victim disclosure

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LEAD School (leadschool.in)

listed as Lead Company (Leadership Boulevard) · Claimed by ShadowByt3$ · listed 3 months ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedJun 3, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: ShadowByt3$
Status: Data leaked
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Jun 3, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

LEAD School is an educational platform/network operating multiple affiliated private schools across India (including locations in Telangana). The platform provides academic management, curriculum delivery (ELGA tiers), and administrative services to partner schools such as Arya Vidyapith, Aakarsh International Public School, Students High School, Rainbow International Matric Hr. Sec. School, and Vignan Private School.

Industry: Educational Technology & School Management

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of large-scale PII including names, dates of birth, residential addresses, and contact information for minors (students) and their parents/guardians, combined with proprietary educational and operational data. Exposure of children's data at scale with parent contact details creates severe risk for targeted fraud, phishing, and child safety threats.

shadowbyt3$ claims to have exfiltrated 765.9 MB of data from leadschool.in, including comprehensive personally identifiable information of students and parents, academic records, proprietary curriculum metrics, and internal school administrative data from the nucleus.leadschool.in portal.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Student names and demographics
Student dates of birth
Student residential addresses and postal codes
Student grade levels and class assignments
Parent/guardian full names
Parent/guardian mobile phone numbers
Parent/guardian email addresses
Academic progression records
ELGA curriculum tier classifications
Classroom performance analytics
Teacher lesson plans and training modules
Student assessments and reports
Teacher certificates
Placement data

What the group claims

Company Site: leadschool.in size: 765.9MB This is will be quick. The following schools are affected: The specific schools explicitly named in the exfiltrated folders include: - Arya Vidyapith - Aakarsh International Public School - Students High School - Rainbow International Matric Hr. Sec. School - Vignan Private School The following info was stolen: 1. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of Students - Full Names and Demographics: Complete names of children sorted by gender and admission numbers. - Academic Progression: Exact tracking of student grade levels (e.g., SKG, Class 1, Class 2) and division assignments - Age and Vital Records: Exact dates of birth (DOB) for all enrolled students. - Physical Locations: Full residential addresses, cities/districts (such as Nampally, Telangana), and exact localized postal pincodes 2. Guardian and Parent Contact Registries - Parent Identity: Full names of both fathers and mothers linked directly to their children. - Direct Contact Methods: Active personal mobile numbers for parents, creating a severe vulnerability for automated spam or voice-phishing attacks. - Digital Contact: Parent email addresses intended for formal school updates. - Student Led Events - Teacher Certificates - gac-reports - Assessments 3. Proprietary LEAD School Academic Metrics - ELGA Placement Data: Internal academic tracking metrics, showing specific curriculum tiers like "ELGA Class" (e.g., ELGA02, ELGA06) and "ELGA Division" for individual students. - Classroom Analytics: Operational performance data exfiltrated directly from the nucleus.leadschool.in administrative portal. - Teacher Resources: Lesson plans, training modules, and classroom resources that form the core commercial assets of the LEAD platform.

Source

Indexed 3 months ago

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Disclosure context

About ShadowByt3$

ShadowByt3$ is an emerging ransomware group that was first observed in February 2026, appearing to be financially motivated based on its ransomware operations. The group's country of origin and any potential affiliations with other cybercriminal organizations remain unknown due to limited intelligence available on this newly identified threat actor. Given the minimal public documentation available, the group's attack methodology, tools, and operational tactics have not been sufficiently analyzed or reported by major cybersecurity firms or government agencies. No notable campaigns, high-profile victims, or significant ransoms have been publicly documented by CISA, FBI, Mandiant, or other reputable security researchers, with only one known victim reported to date and no specific sector targeting patterns identified. The current operational status of ShadowByt3$ remains unclear due to the limited intelligence available on this recently emerged and relatively unknown ransomware operation. The group has been linked to 21 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on February 25, 2026; most recent post August 25, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

June 3, 2026Lead Company (Leadership Boulevard) listed by ShadowByt3$on the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 3,796 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by ShadowByt3$ means Lead Company (Leadership Boulevard) 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.
Monitor for the data appearing on ShadowByt3$'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.