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Global Schools Foundation

Claimed by Fulcrumsec · listed 5 days ago

5d
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 10, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Fulcrumsec
Status
Data leaked
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Jun 10, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Global Schools Foundation (GSG) is a Singapore-headquartered K-12 education holding company operating four school brands (GIIS, OWIS, Glendale, East Academy) across 70+ campuses in 7 countries. Backed by Apollo Global Management with committed capital of ~S$440 million and planned further acquisitions of US$1.5–2 billion, the organization serves tens of thousands of students internationally.

Industry
K-12 Education; International School Holding Company
Address
Singapore (headquarters); operations in India, UAE, Malaysia, Japan, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia
Employees
1000+

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of massive-scale regulated PII at international scale: passport numbers of 33,088+ minors across 66 nationalities, medical records, biometric identifiers (Aadhaar), financial data (credit card statements, salary records), communications with minors, GPS tracking data, and operational infrastructure credentials. Data published and downloadable. Pattern of prior breach non-remediation increases risk of secondary exploitation.

Fulcrumsec claims to have exfiltrated 4.8 TB of data from GSG's AWS environment (account 199031240001, ap-southeast-1) in early April 2026 via compromised credentials and default/weak access controls. The group states it gained access without detection and published a 111 GB highlights pack containing student records, internal communications, employee data, and credentials.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • 33,088 passport numbers (children and parents, 66 nationalities)
  • 9.4 million internal parent-teacher-administrator messages (2006–2024)
  • 35,938+ student records with medical conditions, religion, caste, home addresses
  • 221 million student attendance records
  • 143,494 employee salary records
  • 46,901 job applicant folders with 12,476 passport scans
  • 22,996 campus visitor photographs
  • 107,603 transport users with home addresses and GPS coordinates
  • 12,303 teacher passwords in plaintext (99.98% identical)
  • 616,724 email attachments (medical records, identity documents, report cards)
  • 112 source code repositories
  • 168 AWS Secrets Manager entries
  • 4 MongoDB server dumps
  • 122,862 SMS messages with 34,708 unique phone numbers
  • Evidence of prior 2022 automated ransomware attack (ransom notes still present)

The group's post references roughly 111 GB highlights pack published; 4.8 TB total claimed (partial download available) proof files.

Original description

AI-summarised, not from the leak post

Global Schools Foundation is a Singapore-based non-profit organization operating in the international education sector. It manages a network of private schools across Asia and the Middle East under brands such as Global Indian International School. The foundation focuses on providing quality education with an Indian curriculum framework to students from diverse nationalities, emphasizing holistic development and academic excellence across multiple campuses worldwide.

The leak post

captured from the group's site
Global Schools Group / Global Schools Foundation / GIIS • K-12 Education Holding Company • 4.8 TB
Curated selection: student database with 33,088 passport numbers (decompressed, ready to view), 9.6 GB of internal messages, 46,901 job applicant document folders, 22,996 visitor photos, 12,303 teacher passwords in plaintext, employee salary records, source code, credentials, SMS messages, MongoDB dumps
Note: All children’s names have been redacted across every file.
[DOWNLOAD HIGHLIGHTS PACK (~111 GB — onion link)](http://4e3p3in2bl67hxchuwza7qvnpe7pyeloyztr5fnh257fxkovfhappjyd.onion/gsg-data/GSG_highlights_redacted.zip) [DOWNLOAD VIA TORRENT (111 GB)](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3273da3c058a121602cba0334d7500006f999b48&dn=GSG_highlights_redacted.zip&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.tracker.cl%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fp4p.arenabg.com%3A1337%2Fannounce)
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Sources

Source

Indexed 5 days ago

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Disclosure context

About fulcrumsec

FulcrumSec is a recently emerged ransomware group that was first observed in May 2026, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple countries and high-value sectors. Given the recency of their emergence and limited public documentation, the group's specific country of origin and potential affiliations remain unclear, though their targeting of victims across the United States, India, Netherlands, Colombia, and Japan suggests either a geographically distributed operation or deliberate international scope rather than nation-state backing. The group has demonstrated a preference for targeting technology companies, business services firms, and healthcare organizations, with 21 documented victims indicating a selective approach focused on sectors likely to yield significant ransom payments due to operational dependencies and sensitive data holdings. Their attack methodology details remain largely undocumented in public threat intelligence reports from major security firms, though their sector targeting suggests sophisticated initial access capabilities given the typically robust security postures of technology and healthcare organizations. No major high-profile campaigns or significant law enforcement actions against FulcrumSec have been publicly reported by CISA, FBI, or leading cybersecurity researchers as of available intelligence. The group appears to remain active as of the most recent observations, though the limited public intelligence on their operations suggests they may be maintaining a relatively low profile compared to more established ransomware enterprises. The group has been linked to 24 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 1, 2026; most recent post June 10, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 10, 2026Global Schools Foundation listed by fulcrumsecon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by fulcrumsec

fulcrumsec has been linked to 24 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Education sector, which has 1,082 disclosures indexed across all operators we track.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by fulcrumsec means Global Schools Foundation 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 fulcrumsec'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.