Ransomware victim disclosure
← All victimsHAW Hamburg
Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 3 years ago
Status timeline
- Listed
Mar 5, 2023
- Data leaked
At a glance
- Group
- Vicesociety
- Status
- Data leaked
- Country
- Germany
- Sector
- Education
- Listed on leak site
- Mar 5, 2023
About the victim
AI dossier — public-source company profileHAW Hamburg (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg) is northern Germany's leading university of applied sciences, located in Hamburg, Germany. The institution serves students and researchers from more than 100 countries across multiple faculties covering engineering, life sciences, social sciences, and media. It is a large public institution offering undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes with significant research and international partnerships.
- Industry
- Higher Education (University of Applied Sciences)
- Address
- Berliner Tor 5, 20099 Hamburg, Germany
- Employees
- 1001-5000
- Founded
- 1970
Attack summary
Severity: high — Data has been published (not merely threatened), targeting a large public university that holds PII of thousands of students and staff from over 100 countries, as well as research and administrative data. While not a government or healthcare entity, the confirmed exfiltration and publication of data at this scale from an educational institution with significant personal and institutional data warrants a high severity rating.Vice Society claims to have exfiltrated data from HAW Hamburg, with the disclosure status recorded as data_published, indicating that stolen data has been released publicly. The leak post does not specify the precise data types or volume, but the attack targeted a large public university holding student, staff, and research records.
Data the group says was taken
AI dossier — extracted from the leak post- Student personal records
- Staff/employee records
- Academic research data
- Administrative documents
- Authentication/IT credentials
- Financial records
What the group claims
Developing sustainable solutions to the societal challenges of today and tomorrow. This is the goal of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), northern Germany's leading applied sciences university when it comes to reflective practice. People from more than 100 countries help make HAW Hamburg what it is, and our diversity is our particular strength.
Sources
Source
Indexed 3 years agoThis page surfaces a public ransomware disclosure indexed by Darkfield. Original posts come from the operator's own leak site; we cross-check against ransomware.live, RansomLook and RansomWatch where applicable. Share this URL freely.
