Breaches and incidents
Universitaet Leipzig: IT attack takes all IT services and websites offline
The university said it learned of the incident on 28 Oct 2026 and that on 29 Oct all IT services and websites remained offline.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Checked against a primary source
What happened
- The university said it learned of the incident on 28 Oct 2026 and that on 29 Oct all IT services and websites remained offline; it could not yet say when services would return. A separate university notice said an event livestream could not happen “because of the IT attack”.
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- No attacker named.
- A crisis team under Rector Prof. Dr. Eva Ines Obergfell was set up, an IT emergency response provider was engaged, the authorities were informed, and functional mailboxes were to be provided for urgent communication.