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Universite de Pau et du Pays de lAdour

Claimed by Nova · listed 10 months ago

80 GB
Data size
9m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedSep 29, 2025
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Nova
Status
Data leaked
Country
France
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Sep 29, 2025
Data size
80 GB

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA) is a French public research university located in Pau, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. It offers a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes across sciences, humanities, law, and technology. The university serves tens of thousands of students and maintains multiple campuses across the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Landes departments.

Industry
Higher Education

Attack summary

Severity: high — 80 GB of data from a public university has been confirmed as published/leaked, likely containing student PII, staff records, academic and administrative data, and potentially research data; the disclosed status is data_published indicating confirmed exfiltration at meaningful scale.

The Nova ransomware group claims to have exfiltrated 80 GB of data from the university after it did not respond to contact attempts, and states that the data has been published/leaked.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • University data (unspecified, 80 GB)

What the group claims

The Université de Pau et du Pays de l'Adour was founded in 1972. It is a multi-site establishment, based in Pau, Bayonne, Tarbes, and Mont-de-Marsan and is part of the Academy of Bordeaux - we stole 80GB of data include Docs , reports , billing PDFs , Plans , Factory and payments Documents , Workers full infos , Complete student and Teachers data (Private IDs) , resources and lot more , we will provide decryptor + report + return and delete Data , follow readme to process

The leak post

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Screenshot of the leak post

Leak screenshot for Universite de Pau et du Pays de lAdour

Sources

Source

Indexed 10 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

  • September 29, 2025Universite de Pau et du Pays de lAdour listed by novaon the group's public leak site
Data size
80 GB

Other recent disclosures by nova

nova has been linked to 183 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. Geographically, Universite de Pau et du Pays de lAdour is reported in France, a country with 612 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by nova means Universite de Pau et du Pays de lAdour 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, CERT-FR (France), 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.