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University of Valencia

Claimed by Nova · listed 2 months ago

10 GB
Data size
53d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedMay 23, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
Spain
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
May 23, 2026
Data size
10 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The University of Valencia is one of Spain's oldest and leading academic institutions, founded in 1499 and located in Valencia, Spain. It currently enrolls approximately 55,000 students and offers courses primarily in Spanish, with increasing offerings in Valencian and English.

Industry
Higher Education
Address
Valencia, Spain
Founded
1499

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of personal data including photographs of minors and students, which constitutes sensitive PII at scale affecting a large institution with 55,000 students. Data involving children elevates severity despite lack of published proof samples.

Nova claims to have exfiltrated sensitive personal data including photographs of students and children, as well as staff information. The group characterizes the data as embarrassing and sensitive, and is soliciting contact for ransom negotiation.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • personal photographs of students
  • personal photographs of children
  • staff personal data

What the group claims

University of Valencia is a university located in the Spanish city of Valencia. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Valencian Community, and is regarded as one of Spain's leading academic institutions. The University was founded in 1499, and currently has around 55,000 students. Most of the courses are given through the medium of Spanish, but the university has promised to increase the amount of courses available in Valencian. Moreover, in some degrees part of the teaching is in English - we don't know why you save personal kids photos and students on the server, the data is very sensitive and Embarrassing for the students and the staffs and kids, we will discuss the status with our Management Team about the kids photos, Contact us for deal - Nova Provide tree and samples from stolen data to the company when its get in touch with support department.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
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Sources

Source

Indexed 2 months ago

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Disclosure context

About nova

Based on the limited available data, Nova is a recently emerged ransomware operation first observed in April 2025 with an apparent financial motivation, having targeted approximately 95 victims in its brief operational period. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain undocumented by major security firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than geopolitically motivated attacks. Nova's attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been publicly detailed by established threat intelligence sources, though their victim distribution across the United States, France, Brazil, Singapore, and the Netherlands indicates either automated widespread targeting or access to diverse initial compromise vectors. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and education sectors, suggesting they may focus on organizations with critical operational dependencies that increase pressure for ransom payment. Given the group's recent emergence and limited public documentation by major security researchers, Nova's current operational status, organizational structure, and long-term threat trajectory remain largely uncharacterized in established threat intelligence reporting. The group has been linked to 183 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on April 28, 2025; most recent post July 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • May 23, 2026University of Valencia listed by novaon the group's public leak site
Data size
10 GB

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 183 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full nova dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, University of Valencia is reported in Spain, a country with 128 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means University of Valencia 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, INCIBE-CERT (Spain), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on nova'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.