Columbia University
Data Breach on August 17, 2026
| Data Breach Report | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Victim | columbia.edu | ||
| Threat Actor | GlobalSecretGroup | ||
| Date Discovered | Aug 17, 2026 | ||
| Description | Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university based in the USA (New York), providing higher education, research, and academic programs as a nonprofit institution. | ||
| Leak Size | 296GB |
Credential Exposure for columbia.edu
We've indexed 101,489 @columbia.edu accounts from external breaches, plus 5,661 credentials for columbia.edu itself.
Last checked Aug 17, 2026
| @columbia.edu addresses from external breaches | |
|---|---|
| Third-party breaches | 96,320 accounts · across 2763 breaches · 84,510 with a plaintext password · most recent Apr 19, 2026 |
| Combo lists | 40,667 accounts · most recent Aug 17, 2026 |
| Passwords for columbia.edu accounts | |
|---|---|
| Combo lists | 4,308 logins · most recent Aug 17, 2026 |
| Infostealer logs | 1,765 logins · 1,289 infected devices · most recent Aug 8, 2026 |
Logins may belong to customers or to staff, and the data doesn't say which. None of this is necessarily connected to the ransomware attack above.
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