Glendale Community College

glendale.edu

Trustworthiness

Published by the company

accounts: 793,925
Breach happened: 15 June 2026
Added to the register: 11 July 2026

In June 2026, Glendale Community College was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data allegedly obtained from Glendale was later published online and included almost 800k unique email addresses along with various other data fields, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and other information relating to student enrolments. In its disclosure notice, the college advised that "the potentially impacted information may vary for each individual and may include all or just one of the above-listed types of information".

What leaked

Identity documents

It never changes, so it stays useful to a fraudster for life — and can open accounts or credit in your name.

Identity theft →
Phone number

Used for calls and texts that open already knowing who you are.

Fake adviser calls →
Postal address

Used to stage a delivery, a utility visit or a neighbour that never happened.

Social engineering →
Date of birth

Used to clear the “confirm your identity” step on a call you did not make.

Identity theft →
Email address

The address every one of these scams will arrive at.

Phishing →
Name

Used to make a cold approach look like a conversation already under way.

Social engineering →
Education

Where and when you studied — a detail that makes a stranger sound like they know you.
Demographic details

Age, gender and the like. Relatively harmless on their own.

What is not listed

Passwords
Bank details
Card numbers

So there is no password to change here — the usual first move does not apply.

The record shows what was found in the data. Not listed is not the same as proven untouched.

Source

The company said so itself, which is the strongest evidence that it happened — though companies tend to understate how far a breach reached.

The company itself

Glendale Community College

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Verification service

Have I Been Pwned

Under licence CC BY 4.0

Collects leaked files, checks they are genuine, and lets anyone search their own address in them. Run by one security researcher since 2013.

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