Breaches and incidents
Universitaet Mannheim: chair’s server breached, attackers threaten to publish data
The university said on 22 Sep that unknown parties gained unauthorized access to a server of the Chair of Economic and Business Education, Learning, Design...
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What happened
- The university said on 22 Sep that unknown parties gained unauthorized access to a server of the Chair of Economic and Business Education, Learning, Design and Technology, detected on 17 Sep; the chair holder then received a letter threatening to publish the server’s data. Students with study/exam work at the chair, staff (including HR data) and research partners may be affected.
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- The server was disconnected from the university network; IT, information security, data protection, the state criminal police and the state data protection commissioner are involved.