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 19, 2026Alert 360 Opco Inc. (alert360.com) listed by shinyhunterson the group's public leak site

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Business Services sector, which has 2,640 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Alert 360 Opco Inc. (alert360.com) 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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Alert 360 Opco Inc. (alert360.com)

Claimed by shinyhunters · listed 1 month ago

31d

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

Listed
Apr 19, 2026
Data leaked

At a glance

Group: shinyhunters
Status: Data leaked
Country: US
Sector: Business Services
Listed on leak site: Apr 19, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Alert 360 (Alert 360 Opco Inc.) is a US-based provider of smart home and business security systems, offering monitored intrusion detection, video surveillance, access control, smart home integration, and 24/7 US-based monitoring services. The company serves both residential and commercial customers across multiple locations and is reachable via clearnet at alert360.com. They provide expert installation, remote monitoring, and mobile management capabilities.

Industry: Home & Business Security Systems & Monitoring

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration and publication of over 2.5 million PII-containing records from a home and business security provider; the scale of regulated personal data exposure at a security monitoring company with physical access/surveillance data context meets the critical threshold.

ShinyHunters claims to have exfiltrated over 2.5 million records containing PII and internal corporate data, totalling more than 10 GB compressed, and has published the data along with a negotiation chat log explaining why the data was leaked.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Internal corporate data
Negotiation chat logs

The group's post references roughly 1 proof file.

What the group claims

Over 2.5M records containing PII and other internal corporate data have been compromised. Please read the chatlog of the negociation by cliking the Download button below to see why this data was leaked. | Size: 10GB+ (compressed) | Updated: 18 Apr 2026 | SHA256: 9c5c8225f27a23f1a03526bfd15dad02b5976797664a92bdd53b23f5f9ef3fe3

Sources

Victim sitealert360.com

Source

Indexed 1 month ago

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