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University of Copenhagen breach exposes 525,000
A test environment held national ID numbers, plus 20,000 building PINs.
- Organisation
- University of Copenhagen
- Disclosed
- 27 October 2026
- Affected
- 525,000
- Data
- Names, national IDs, contacts
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “University of Copenhagen breach exposes 525,000”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 27 Oct 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-10-27-university-of-copenhagen-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-copenhagen-data-breach-exposes-data-of-525-000-people/.
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