Legitimate warning email from ITMC's SIC "Your credentials have appeared on the Internet"
The mail has been sent by the SIC of the ITMC to many TU members and is authentic. We often receive such warnings from the DFN-Verein (German Research Network), the TU's Internet provider. Based on the [...] the affected mail addresses (many old @uni-dortmund.de addresses), we suspect that the cause may lie far in the past. We have not received any further information from the DFN-Verein. However, the cause [...] cause is usually external web services that use the mail address as a user name and require a login with a password. If such a service is cracked by hackers and the data circulates in the darknet, DFN-Verein …
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