University of Copenhagen fell victim to yet another hacking attack on Monday.
Details of the attack are still very sparse. There are currently operational disruptions on services such as Workzone and Nimbus.
This follows the revelation last week that the university had been victim of a data breach with roughly 525,000 people’s data accessed.
Breach last week
On Friday last week, the university announced that it had been the victim of a hacking attack earlier that week where the aforementioned data was accessed.
Over the weekend, the university added that the PIN codes of roughly 20,000 people had been accessed.
This had already led the university to shut access to select physical critical locations on the campus on Friday evening, as a preventative measure.
Following new PIN codes being allocated to people with compromised details, the physical locations opened up again.
New hacking attempt
On Monday this week, the university announced that it was once again the victim of a hacking attack. This led them to shut certain online services.
In the press release, they wrote that “This is a preventive and controlled shutdown of the relevant administrative systems, as the university was subjected to a new hacker attack earlier today. There may be difficulties accessing KU’s websites.”
In the press release, they also noted that “The University of Copenhagen has no further comments on the matter at this time.”
Critique of the university
Following last week’s hack, the Chairman of the Student Council, Ira Thomas Bro Pold, told TV 2 Kosmopol that “It’s unfortunate that we only found out about it three days after it happened. I would like more respect for the students and more involvement.”
An expert in cybersecurity that DR spoke to, Sofie Freja Christensen, shared Pold’s critique, saying that “Once the worst of the fire has been put out, one should be quicker to communicate.”
