Cyberattack hits University of Munich, potentially exposing student financial data
Unknown attacker accessed LMU Munich enrollment system, potentially retrieving bank details, health insurance numbers, and financial aid data.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), one of Germany's largest universities with over 52,000 students, is investigating unauthorized access to an enrollment data system detected Wednesday. The university assumes data was retrieved, potentially including names, dates of birth, contact details, bank account information, health insurance numbers, and German student financial aid identifiers. No evidence indicates the data was altered, deleted, published, or misused; the attacker, access duration, and affected person count are unknown. LMU disconnected the affected server, brought in external specialists and law enforcement, and briefly suspended enrollment while extending deadlines.
- University states it must assume enrollment data was in fact retrieved.
- Exposed fields include bank details, health insurance numbers, and German financial aid identifiers.
- No evidence yet of publication, alteration, or misuse; attacker unidentified.
- Affected server taken offline; enrollment briefly suspended and deadlines extended.
- Organizations
- LMU Munich
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2 min read at therecord.mediaThe university, commonly known as LMU Munich, said Saturday that an attacker accessed enrollment data stored on one of its IT systems.
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