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Investigation · Student & Alumni Data
Houston City College Data Breach Investigation
Hall Attorneys is evaluating potential claims for current and former Houston City College students and alumni after a reported June 2026 breach involving 831,642 unique email addresses.
- Verified indexed count
- 831,642
- Reported breach date
- June 16, 2026
- Listed data types
- 8
unique email addresses listed by HIBP
date assigned by HIBP
academic, identity, contact, and profile fields
Answer at a glance
What happened in the Houston City College data breach?
Have I Been Pwned says Houston City College was targeted in a June 2026 ShinyHunters pay-or-leak extortion campaign and that data allegedly obtained from the college was later published publicly.
The verified HIBP entry lists 831,642 unique email addresses and says the data relates to current students and alumni. Public reporting places Houston City College among several education-sector organizations named during the same period.
The public materials reviewed for this page do not establish the precise access path, the number of distinct people, or whether every listed category appeared in every record.
This is an investigation, not a filed lawsuit by Hall Attorneys. Facts may change as organizations, regulators, courts, or security researchers publish additional information.
PeopleSoft campaign disclosed
Oracle issued an alert for CVE-2026-35273, and Mandiant described an active ShinyHunters campaign concentrated in higher education. These reports provide campaign context but do not, by themselves, prove Houston City College's access path.
College named in public reporting
Security Affairs reported that ShinyHunters had announced new education-sector victims, including Houston City College.
Breach added to Have I Been Pwned
HIBP added a verified entry listing 831,642 unique email addresses and eight compromised data categories.
Reported data categories
What information was involved?
Have I Been Pwned lists eight compromised data categories. The entry describes the indexed data at a dataset level, not the fields associated with any particular individual.
Important distinction
The 831,642 figure is a count of unique email addresses in HIBP's indexed dataset. It does not necessarily equal 831,642 distinct people, and public sources reviewed for this page do not establish that every record contained every category.
- Academic information
- Academic records
- Identity details
- Names and dates of birth
- Contact information
- Email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses
- Profile details
- Citizenship statuses and genders
Who may want to contact us
Students, alumni, and notice recipients
The investigation is focused on people whose Houston City College information may appear in the reported dataset, particularly those who received notice or experienced misuse tied to the event.
Current or former Houston City College students whose email address appears in the HIBP entry
Alumni whose academic, identity, contact, or profile information may have been involved
People who receive a Houston City College breach notice or monitoring offer
People experiencing college-themed phishing, account misuse, identity theft, fraud, expense, or lost time
What to preserve
Keep college records, security notices, and evidence of misuse
Preserve relevant records, but do not send passwords, full financial-account numbers, government identification, or unredacted credit reports through ordinary website forms.
Relationship records
Preserve records showing your relationship with Houston City College, including dated account, enrollment, employment, alumni, transaction, or correspondence records.
Information held about you
Save records or dated screenshots showing the contact, identity, academic, employment, financial, or profile information the organization held about you.
Suspicious communications
Keep phishing emails, texts, calls, password-reset messages, account alerts, or other communications that use organization-specific details.
Credit and account records
Preserve credit alerts, unfamiliar-account notices, fraud reports, freeze confirmations, monitoring results, and relevant financial correspondence.
Time, expenses, and harm
Track time spent securing accounts or responding to misuse, along with out-of-pocket costs, lost funds, denied credit, or other concrete effects.
Investigation focus
Issues under review
Hall Attorneys is reviewing the reported publication, the data involved, Houston City College's response and notice process, and concrete harms reported by affected people.
- How Houston City College systems were accessed and when the college first learned of the event
- Which systems, databases, and historical records were accessed or acquired
- How many distinct current students, former students, alumni, employees, and other people were affected
- Which of the eight HIBP-listed categories were associated with each affected person
- Whether affected people received complete and timely individualized notice
- Whether the event led to targeted phishing, identity theft, fraud, financial loss, monitoring costs, or time loss
Public records reviewed
Sources for the Houston City College incident
The current public record is led by the verified HIBP dataset entry and contemporaneous campaign reporting. Facts may change if the college or regulators publish additional findings.
Have I Been Pwned ·
Houston City College Data Breach
Lists 831,642 unique email addresses, eight compromised data categories, the June 2026 breach date, and the reported public release.
Read source: Houston City College Data BreachSecurity Affairs ·
EdTech Faces a Cybersecurity Crisis: Data Breaches Surge
Contemporaneous reporting that names Houston City College among education-sector organizations claimed by ShinyHunters.
Read source: EdTech Faces a Cybersecurity Crisis: Data Breaches SurgeGoogle Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant ·
ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit
Describes activity attributed to UNC6240, also known as ShinyHunters, observed from May 27 through June 9 and aligned with exploitation of CVE-2026-35273.
Read source: ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft ExploitOracle ·
Security Alert Advisory — CVE-2026-35273
Oracle says the PeopleSoft PeopleTools vulnerability is remotely exploitable without authentication, may allow remote code execution, and affects supported versions 8.61 and 8.62.
Read source: Security Alert Advisory — CVE-2026-35273Contact the firm
Were you affected by the Houston City College breach?
Contact Hall Attorneys with your general relationship to the college, whether you received notice, and a summary of suspicious activity or loss. Do not include passwords, full account numbers, Social Security numbers, or identification documents in an initial message.
Frequently asked questions
Houston City College breach FAQ
Is this a filed Houston City College lawsuit?
No. This page describes an investigation by Hall Attorneys and does not state that the firm has filed a lawsuit concerning Houston City College.
How many Houston City College accounts were affected?
Have I Been Pwned lists 831,642 unique email addresses. That count does not necessarily equal the number of distinct people.
What information was reportedly exposed?
HIBP lists academic records, citizenship statuses, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, names, phone numbers, and physical addresses. The fields associated with a particular person may vary.
Did Houston City College confirm the breach?
The public sources reviewed for this page did not include a detailed Houston City College incident notice. HIBP marks its dataset entry as verified, but that is different from an institutional statement describing the full investigation.
What should affected people preserve?
Keep notices, college relationship records, suspicious messages, credit or account alerts, fraud reports, and records of time, costs, or losses associated with the incident.
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Hall Attorneys is not affiliated with Houston City College or the publishers cited on this page. This page concerns an investigation, not a filed lawsuit by Hall Attorneys. Sending information does not create an attorney-client relationship. Do not send passwords, monitoring codes, complete financial-account numbers, government identification, or other highly confidential information unless specifically requested through a secure channel.