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University of Copenhagen: test environment breach exposes 525,000 people
UCPH confirmed on 23 Oct an attack on a test environment detected 21 Oct (Help Net Security says 20 Oct).
- Disclosed
What happened
- UCPH confirmed on 23 Oct an attack on a test environment detected 21 Oct (Help Net Security says 20 Oct). Data on about 525,000 people: full names, CPR numbers, work and home phones, personal emails; some records older than 2002. ID card PIN codes for about 20,000 staff and students were compromised and reissued.
- Initial access: not disclosed.
- Attribution: unknown.
- Response: reported to the Danish DPA; administrative systems shut down as a precaution; a “new attack” reported on 26 Oct was corrected on 27 Oct as internal activity.
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