At the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the IT department has on 12. October 2026 unusual activities discovered in the network and classified as security-relevant. As a precaution, individual devices and servers have been isolated so that a possible attack cannot spread further.
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At the same time, the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg was the target of a cyber attack on its IT systems. According to previous assumptions, attackers may have accessed data from around 51,000 applications from several semesters. The suspicion of the possible data outflow is based on a report by the MDR; the exact extent of the incident is still being investigated.
