Moody Bible Institute

moody.edu

Trustworthiness

Published by the company

accounts: 2,303,416
Breach happened: 15 June 2026
Added to the register: 3 July 2026

In June 2026, Moody Bible Institute was targeted by a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Over 2.3M unique email addresses and other personal data were later published publicly, including names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and other information relating to donors, supporters, students and alumni. In their disclosure notice, Moody advised that they had "engaged both internal and external cybersecurity experts to thoroughly investigate the matter".

What leaked

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 →
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

Moody Bible Institute

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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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