DTU’s Breach Warning Reaches Beyond Its Notification List
DTU reported on 2 October that hijacked accounts opened a route into DTUBasen, enabling extensive extraction. It holds roughly 40,000 live profiles alongside 160,000 historical ones. Precisely which individuals or fields were copied remains unclear. Staff, students, visitors and outside collaborators associated with the university from 2003 onwards face potential exposure.
Current fields include national identity references, addresses and relatives’ telephone information. Half a year after departure, addresses, pictures plus relatives’ details are removed; names and CPR identifiers remain.
Many visitors, collaborators and relatives cannot be reached individually. Beware unexpected sign-in approvals and suspicious approaches. Replace passwords reused elsewhere and consider activating the national credit-warning option.
Source: DTU.
