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 108 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 3, 2025; most recent post May 12, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

April 28, 2026Vimeo, Inc. listed by shinyhunterson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Technology sector, which has 2,524 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Vimeo, Inc. is reported in US, a country with 2,713 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.

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Vimeo, Inc.

Claimed by shinyhunters · listed 23 days ago

22d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 28, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: shinyhunters
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Technology
Listed on leak site: Apr 28, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Vimeo, Inc. is a US-based video hosting, sharing, and streaming platform headquartered in New York, NY. The company provides cloud-based video tools and hosting services to businesses and creators worldwide. Vimeo serves millions of users and businesses across various industries with SaaS video solutions.

Industry: Video Hosting & Streaming Technology
Employees: 1001-5000
Founded: 2004

Attack summary

Severity: high — The claim involves exfiltration of cloud data warehouse contents (Snowflake and BigQuery), which typically contain large volumes of business analytics, user, and potentially PII data at scale; the attack vector is a third-party (Anodot) supply chain compromise, increasing credibility. No confirmed proof files are published yet, but the disclosed status is 'data_published' and the threat involves significant business and potentially user data.

ShinyHunters claims to have compromised data from Vimeo's Snowflake and Google BigQuery cloud data warehouse instances via a third-party vendor, Anodot.com, and is threatening to leak the exfiltrated data if payment is not made by 30 April 2026.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Snowflake instance data
BigQuery instance data
Third-party vendor-accessible cloud data

What the group claims

Your Snowflake and Bigquery instances data was compromised thanks to Anodot.com. Pay or Leak. This is a final warning to reach out by 30 Apr 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: 28 Apr 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK

Source

Indexed 23 days ago

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