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Cisco Systems, Inc. (cisco.com)

Claimed by Shinyhunters · listed 4 months ago

3m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedApr 1, 2026
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Shinyhunters
Status
Data leaked
Country
United States
Sector
Technology
Listed on leak site
Apr 1, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a global technology leader headquartered in San Jose, California, specializing in networking hardware, cybersecurity solutions, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven enterprise software. The company serves over one million customers worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 500, and reports annual revenues exceeding $50 billion. Cisco's product portfolio spans switches, routers, firewalls, collaboration tools, and observability platforms.

Industry
Networking, Cybersecurity & IT Infrastructure
Address
170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134, USA
Employees
80000
Founded
1984

Attack summary

Severity: critical — The threat actor claims exfiltration of over 3 million PII-bearing Salesforce records alongside source code repositories and cloud storage data from one of the world's largest technology companies; the scale, sensitivity, and confirmed exfiltration (data_published status) of regulated personal data across multiple breach vectors meets the critical threshold.

ShinyHunters claims to have conducted three separate breaches (UNC6040, Salesforce Aura, and AWS accounts), allegedly exfiltrating over 3 million Salesforce records containing PII, internal GitHub repositories, AWS S3 bucket contents, and other corporate data, threatening to publish all data if Cisco does not respond by 3 April 2026.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Salesforce customer/user PII records (3M+)
  • GitHub source code repositories
  • AWS S3 bucket contents
  • Internal corporate data

What the group claims

3 breaches ( UNC6040 , Salesforce Aura, and AWS accounts). Total over 3M Salesforce records containing PII, Github repositories, AWS buckets and other internal corporate data have been compromised. This is a final warning to reach out by 3 Apr 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | Updated: 31 Mar 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING

Sources

Source

Indexed 4 months ago

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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 139 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 3, 2025; most recent post July 15, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • April 1, 2026Cisco Systems, Inc. (cisco.com) listed by shinyhunterson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by shinyhunters

shinyhunters has been linked to 139 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 Technology sector, which has 3,549 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Cisco Systems, Inc. (cisco.com) is reported in United States, a country with 3,115 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by shinyhunters means Cisco Systems, Inc. (cisco.com) 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, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on shinyhunters'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.