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Qilin Claims Australian Education Firm Calvary Christian College on Its Leak Site

ransomware.live · 5 Nov 2026
Key Takeaway Schools and other education providers should check now that backups are offline and tested, multi-factor authentication is on for all email and remote access, and an incident response contact list is ready.

This claim is unverified, and Calvary Christian College has not confirmed that any cyber incident has occurred. The ransomware group Qilin has listed the school, whose website is www.calvary.qld.edu.au, on its dark web leak site. The listing was posted on 5 November 2026 and picked up the same day by ransomware.live, a public tracker that monitors such sites.

A listing is only a claim made by criminals. Groups sometimes name organisations they never breached, post names while negotiations are under way, or get details wrong. No information in the listing has been verified, and no size of any claimed data set was given in the entry. The sector is recorded as education.

Until the school or an official source says more, it is not possible to say whether any systems were affected. The listing is still a useful reminder that schools and other education providers are visible targets for extortion groups, and that their communities may face uncertainty while claims are investigated.

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