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DTU hack potentially exposes 200,000
Personal data of students and staff may have been accessed.
- Organisation
- Technical University of Denmark
- Disclosed
- 4 October 2026
- Affected
- 200,000
- Data
- Personal data
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM Alliance monthly roundup ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “DTU hack potentially exposes 200,000”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 4 Oct 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-10-04-technical-university-of-denmark-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM Alliance monthly roundup, https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/biggest-cyber-attacks-data-breaches-ransomware-attacks-october-2026.
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