Houston Community College (hccs.edu) Data Breach (2026)
An education service in the education sector.
What this number measures
The Index rates how dangerous a breach is right now rather than how large it was. It values each exposed field on its own, ages each one according to what that field is, and models what the assembled set lets an attacker do.
It is read against what is observed circulating, not what was announced. Bands: 61 and above high, 31 to 60 moderate, below 31 low.
Every score carries a status. Observed means it is scored on fields seen circulating. Observed minimum means at least that much was seen, so read it as a floor. Provisional means the field list comes from breach catalogues and is not yet verified. How sure we are of the evidence is shown separately, and it never lowers the score. How the Index works →
No field list has been confirmed for this breach yet.
- Listed
- 1,052,088 rows
- Breach date
- 2026-06-15
- Listed as of
- 2026-07-04
Breach- Listed in breach catalogues
What data was exposed
No field list has been confirmed for this breach yet.
How this data can be used against you
Assessed once the record is scored.
Two key actions to take
Monitor financial and account statements and stay alert to identity-theft and phishing attempts that reference this breach
Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations
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What happened, what the company reported against what is circulating, the field-by-field record, the actor and the advisory.
- What happened
- Recent developments
- Reported and circulating
- Data points exposed
- Downstream risk
- Principal risk advisory
- Threat actor
- Background
- Data context
- Next steps
How this breach happened
In 2026, hccs.edu suffered a data breach affecting approximately 1,100,000 records. Exposed data types were not enumerated in the available source.
What has happened since the breach
The hccs.edu dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
What was reported vs. what is circulating
Reported
- Status
- No public notice found
Listed in breach catalogues
- Listed as of
- 2026-07-04
- Breach date
- 2026-06-15
- Volume
- 1,052,088 rows
- Fields listed
- None confirmed yet
The score is built only on what is listed in circulation.
Every exposed field, and how long it stays useful
No field list has been confirmed for this breach yet.
How attackers can use this data
Practical risk: contact and profile data supports phishing and enrichment. Compounding risk rises where this data links to other breached or brokered records.
Risks for executives and other high-profile people
An education-sector breach: student and family identity data supports long-horizon identity fraud. Principal relevance is moderate and rises sharply if the principal, household, or staff use this service, or if the data is fused with other exposed records.
Who is behind this breach
No threat actor has been publicly attributed.
About the company
hccs.edu is an education provider in the education sector.
Why the company holds this data
hccs.edu is an education service in the education sector. Services like this typically hold through account registration and normal operations.
How ObscureIQ can help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern.