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College of Business Education

listed as College of Business - Tanzania · Claimed by Hellcat · listed 2 years ago

500.000 records
Records
20m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedNov 4, 2024
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Hellcat
Status
Data leaked
Country
Tanzania
Sector
Education
Listed on leak site
Nov 4, 2024
Records
500.000 records

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

College of Business Education (CBE) is a public tertiary institution in Tanzania operating four campuses (Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Mwanza, Mbeya) with 16,988+ students and 459 staff. The institution offers certificate, diploma, bachelor, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes in business and related disciplines.

Industry
Higher Education
Address
Bibi Titi Mohamed Rd, P.O. Box 1968, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Employees
459

Attack summary

Severity: high — Confirmed exfiltration of 500,000+ student records containing PII (names, contacts) and financial data at significant scale affecting a major educational institution; data already published.

Hellcat claims to have exfiltrated over 500,000 records from CBE containing student personal and enrollment data including names, phone numbers, emails, and possible billing/tuition information.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • student names
  • phone numbers
  • email addresses
  • billing information

What the group claims

We have released over 500,000 records from Tanzania’s College of Business Education, containing student names, phone numbers, emails, and additional data, including possible billing information.

Sources

Source

Indexed 2 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Hellcat

Hellcat is a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2024, operating with apparent financial motivations based on their targeting patterns across multiple high-value sectors. The group's origin and potential state affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, though their broad geographic targeting spanning the United States, China, Germany, France, and Israel suggests either a sophisticated international operation or the use of ransomware-as-a-service infrastructure. Limited public documentation exists regarding Hellcat's specific attack methodologies, encryption techniques, or whether they employ double extortion tactics involving data exfiltration prior to encryption, as major cybersecurity firms and government agencies have yet to publish detailed technical analyses of their operations. With only 20 documented victims to date, the group has not yet conducted any widely publicized major campaigns or drawn significant law enforcement attention, though their targeting of technology, education, government, and business services sectors indicates a focus on organizations likely to possess valuable data and have strong incentives to pay ransoms. Hellcat remains active as of current reporting, though their limited operational footprint and recent emergence make long-term assessment of their capabilities and persistence difficult to determine. The group has been linked to 20 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 25, 2024; most recent post April 10, 2025. The operation is currently inactive.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • November 4, 2024College of Business - Tanzania listed by Hellcaton the group's public leak site
Records
500.000 records

Other recent disclosures by Hellcat

Hellcat has been linked to 20 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Hellcat 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, College of Business - Tanzania is reported in Tanzania, a country with 2 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Hellcat means College of Business - Tanzania 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 Hellcat'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.