{"id":145673,"date":"2022-10-26T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=145673"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:28","slug":"personal-data-of-thousands-of-staff-and-students-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/10\/26\/personal-data-of-thousands-of-staff-and-students-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal data of thousands of staff and students leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"

The personal data stolen during the hack of a German IT company also included that of staff and students at TU Eindhoven and HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. According to SURF, even more educational institutions were affected.<\/p>\n

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The company ID-ware, which was hacked<\/a> in mid-September, creates and manages access passes for customers such as the Dutch Parliament, ministries and educational institutions. The hack resulted in the leak of pass holders\u2019 data.<\/p>\n

This week, it was announced that data of pass holders at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht<\/a> and TU Eindhoven<\/a> were leaked as well. In HU\u2019s case, the breach mainly concerned employee data, while at TU Eindhoven, it also involved data of students. Data such as surnames, initials, home addresses and email addresses of 21,000 staff and students were stolen during the hack. Both institutions have reported the leak to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.<\/p>\n\n\t

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