Hackers have captured data of thousands of students of TU Eindhoven and Hogeschool Utrecht (HU) via servers of IT company ID-ware. ID-Ware supplies access systems to governments and companies. Information of HU staff was also stolen.
Employees of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven were also affected by the data breach. The Eindhovens Dagblad reported that photos of thousands of employees of the campus were published on the Internet. Data of government officials were also compromised during the hack. Trajectum, the online magazine of Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, recently announced that names, employee numbers, home addresses and possibly e-mail addresses of HU staff were hacked via ID-ware. According to the magazine, student data may also have been misappropriated.
RTL News recently reported that data of TU Eindhoven students were captured by the hackers. The names, private e-mail addresses, home addresses, places of birth, student numbers and pass numbers of at least 21,000 people allegedly ended up in the hands of the criminals. The educational institutions informed the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens about the data breach.
