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Technical University of Munich portal breach exposes user passwords
Attackers took central myTUM login passwords and used a sysadmin account against the TUMonline campus system, which was offline until 9 November.
- Organisation
- Technical University of Munich
- Disclosed
- 9 November 2026
- Affected
- Not stated
- Data
- Passwords, names, addresses, dates of birth, student IDs
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- The Register ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Technical University of Munich portal breach exposes user passwords”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 9 Nov 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-11-09-technical-university-of-munich-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Register, https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/11/09/portal-breach-at-germanys-top-university-exposes-every-registered-users-password/5308380.
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