Liebe (ehemalige) Student*innen des Fachbereichs Angewandte Ingenieurwissenschaften,
bitte beachten Sie, dass über die vom Dezernat Studien- und Prüfungsangelegenheiten bereits veröffentlichten personenbezogenen Daten hinaus auch die folgenden Daten bis zurück in das Jahr 2009 veröffentlicht wurden:
- Angabe über Fach- und Hochschulsemester, ggf. die private Mailadresse sowie die Abschlussnote
- Im Falle eines Hochschulwechsels Angaben über die frühere Hochschule, mitgebrachte Prüfungs- und Studienleistungen sowie die dazugehörigen Noten
Die aktuelle Vorgangsnummer bei der Polizei sowie das Aktenzeichen bei der Generalstaatsanwaltschaft, auf die Sie sich im Falle einer Anzeigenstellung beziehen sollten, können Sie der internen E-Mail vom 26.07.2023 entnehmen. Ehemalige Studierende können die Vorgangsnummer sowie das Aktenzeichen im Dekanat erfragen.
Dear employees and students,
we hereby inform you that the contents of the home page as well as the FAQ have now been completely moved to the website of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences and that no more articles will be published via the offline page. In the future, you will be able to view further current reports on the cyberattack as well as questions and answers within the FAQ under https://www.hs-kl.de/hochschule/aktuelles/cyberangriff. Under Home – Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences (https://www.hs-kl.de), you can also once again access the information of the individual organizational units and departments.
[Translate to Englisch:]
Dear employees, dear students,
as announced, parts of the content of the offline site (hs-kl-offline.de) are currently being transferred to the official website (hs-kl.de). This concerns only the contents of the home page and the FAQ. The messages that were published on the home page have already been moved. In the next step, the contents of the FAQ will be integrated into the new website. Further current messages regarding the cyberattack as well as questions and answers within the FAQ will be published exclusively on the official website in the future and can be found under Cyberattack - Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences (hs-kl.de). We therefore ask you to inform yourself from now on about the attack on the IT infrastructure via your university e-mail addresses as well as via the official university website.
Dear employees, dear students, as well as former employees and students,
On 8 June 2023, Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences was the victim of an attack on its IT infrastructure. As a result of the encryption, the entire IT infrastructure of the university was temporarily unavailable. The State Criminal Police Office, the Ministry of Science and Health and the State Data Protection Commissioner were immediately informed about the attack. Main proceedings to the detriment of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences were opened at the Koblenz General Public Prosecutor's Office in cooperation with the Rhineland-Palatinate State Criminal Police Office.
After the attack on the IT infrastructure at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences on 08.06.2023, during which the attackers penetrated the internal IT systems of the university and also downloaded data, data was published on the Darknet on 20.06.2023.
It subsequently emerged, regrettably, that data relating to you was downloaded and published on the darknet during the attack on the university's IT infrastructure. This involves the following personal data in the following central organisational units:
- Department of Personnel: Surname, first name, personnel number and salary data for the years 2011 to 2020
- Department of Budget and General Administration: payment partners up to 2016 (surname, first name, address, bank details)
- Department of Study and Examination Affairs: Name, first name, matriculation number, photograph, address, telephone number, mobile phone number, place of birth, date of birth, nationality.
We would therefore like to recommend in detail that you report the incident to the police with regard to the "theft" of your personal data. You can report the "theft" of your personal data both in person at a police station and online at the following link: https://www.polizei.rlp.de/onlinewache. If you have any questions about filing a report, please contact your local police station directly.
Should there actually be a misuse of your data in the future, such a report can be helpful in recognising the circumstance of the data theft and directly linking it to the current case. The current case number at the police and the file number at the Public Prosecutor's Office, which you should refer to when filing a complaint, can be found in the internal e-mail dated 26.07.2023. Former employees and students can request the case number and file number from the departments concerned or the university management.
In addition, we would like to inform you that the theft of personal data concerns all students with regard to the data listed in the information mail of the Department for Study and Examination Matters and, in the case of employees, with regard to the data listed in the information mail of the Departments for Personnel and Budget and General Administration. Therefore, in these cases, no personally addressed letters will be sent to them. If the ongoing analyses show that further information has been leaked or stolen, you will be informed again by the relevant organisational unit by e-mail or letter.
We expressly apologise for this inconvenience and will be happy to answer any queries.
Dear employees, dear students,
We hereby inform you that the contents of the offline page will be partly transferred to the website within the next weeks. This will mainly affect the contents of the home page and the FAQ. In the future, the latest news about the cyber attack will also be published there. We will inform in advance via this page about the time horizon and also as soon as the move is completed.
Dear employees, dear students,
With the installation of the mail accounts for staff and students as well as the new accessibility of the official website of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences at www.hs-kl.de, we hereby say goodbye to the daily status report on this page.
Much of the work is currently running in the background and therefore does not seem to be visible to you. Of course, we will continue with our work, even if we cannot provide you with a daily status report. We will therefore prepare new information for you via this page, insofar as it is relevant for everyone and there are new developments in connection with the attack on the IT infrastructure of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences. In the future, you will also receive all central information from us again by e-mail.
Dear students,
We would like to remind you that the temporary and provisional WLAN "hs-kl-open" will be deactivated on 17.7.2023. However, you will once again be able to use the university-wide WLAN "hs-kl.de" with increased security and better bandwidth. To use the WLAN, you will need to change your initial passwords. Please come to the service points and collect your passwords. You also have the option of using the Eduroam WLAN, operated by the DFN (Association for the Promotion of a German Research Network). You can find the instructions for setting it up on your devices at https://doku.tid.dfn.de/de:eduroam:easyroam-anleitungen. If you have any questions, please contact the DFN contact persons directly.
We wish you good nerves and much success in the upcoming exam period!
Dear employees, dear students,
Today we would like to inform you again about the current developments. Currently, appointments are being made with IT representatives, the university management and the employees of the computer center to set up the PC pools at the respective locations. We will keep you informed via this page.
Dear students, dear employees,
We are pleased to inform you that the website of the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern is now available again for everyone at www.hs-kl.de. We would like to point out that the site is currently only available in limited structures and subpages and will be refilled by various editors in the coming weeks. For this purpose, new permissions and new pages have to be created, which is why the process will take some time. We therefore ask for your patience and thank you for your understanding.
Dear employees, dear students,
You will now read or hear less and less from us, as we find ourselves in the process of fine-tuning. A lot of work is going on in the background and is therefore not quite as visible to you at the moment.
However, your concerns are important to us. If you have suggestions about what we can do better or questions, please submit them to us through the "My Concerns" portal at https://mein-anliegen.hs-kl.de. This also gives you the opportunity to get in touch with us outside the information events at all locations.
Dear employees, dear students,
the work in the background continues, even if we have no news for you today. We wish you all a nice and sunny weekend.
Dear employees and students
We would like to remind you once again to collect your initial passwords from the service centers upon presentation of your ID card, so that you can once again use the internal services of the university.
If you have any problems changing your password or if you have any questions, you can contact the following persons or service centers, depending on your status group or location:
Students
• Zweibrücken location: Mr. Andreas Klein
• Kaiserslautern location: Inquiry to the dean's office AING or to the dean's office BG, Internationales Studienkolleg: Mr. Carsten Kremb
• Pirmasens location: Mr. Stefan Zimmer
employees:
Mr. Karl-Heinz Knerlich
For employees of the departments, there is also the possibility to contact the respective IT representative directly for questions regarding accounts and passwords.
For questions regarding locally assigned passwords on computers, printers, copiers and other devices, please contact the respective device operators.
Dear students, dear employees,
Thank you very much for joining us again today at the information events.
We are pleased to inform you that the Campusboard Apps are available again with the usual range of functions. However, it is important that you log in for this with your new access data. If you still have an existing connection that was created with the old access data, you must first log out of it. Please also make sure that you are using the latest version of the app. As always, you can find it in the usual app stores.
Dear students and employees,
We would like to remind you of tomorrow's information events in presence at the three university locations and cordially invite you to enter into exchange with us.
Time/place of the events as follows;
- Kaiserslautern: Thursday, 06 July at 9:00 a.m. in room H 1
- Pirmasens: Thursday, 06 July at 14:00 in the Audimax
- Zweibrücken: Thursday, 06 July at 2:00 p.m. in the Audimax
Dear students, dear employees,
Today we have several pieces of information that we would like to bring to your attention:
1) Information events
This week, there will again be information events at the three university locations, to which we would like to cordially invite you:
Kaiserslautern: Thursday, 06 July at 9:00 a.m. in room H 1
Pirmasens: Thursday, 06 July at 14:00 in the Audimax
Zweibrücken: Thursday, 06 July at 14:00 in the Audimax
2) Information on the data leak
We are currently still sifting through the leaked data and strongly advise you not to download the data leaked on the Darknet yourself, as it is also infected with malware. If you have discovered yourself (by whatever means) that your personal data has been leaked on the Darknet, please contact the university management. There you will receive further information on how to file a complaint.
In addition, we would like to point out that the current media coverage of the data leak with regard to the potential leakage of data has not been confirmed by the university management. Whether the attack on the IT infrastructure at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences also affects the potential leakage of email inboxes cannot be said with certainty. However, we currently assume that the mailboxes may also be affected.
We will inform you immediately if we have any information that you are affected by the leak. We are constantly expanding the FAQ and the information at hs-kl-offline.de. If questions arise that we cannot answer, we will work on solutions and add to them.
3) Virus scanners for students
As far as we know, the following scanners give quite reliable hits and are also used by us to check the service devices:
To use the scanners, we have set up a Seafile folder for you, where we provide a free online solution for scanning as well as instructions. You can find the link to this in the portal at icms.hs-kl.de (login required, please collect your initial passwords!) as well as in your dean's offices/at the Internationales Studienkolleg. At the same time, free and reusable USB sticks with the virus scanner Desinfect will be available from now on, which you can request via the deaneries, at the International Studienkolleg and Asten (while stocks last). Please support each other in this, there are certainly some IT-savvy students among you who will help your fellow students with the scanning.
4) WLAN Eduroam
The WLAN Eduroam, operated by the DFN (Association for the Promotion of a German Research Network), is available again. You can find the instructions for setting it up on your devices at doku.tid.dfn.de/de:eduroam:easyroam-anleitungen. If you have any questions, please contact the DFN directly.
Dear employees,
we are pleased to inform you about further progress: If required, the internal activation servers for Windows and Office university licenses can now be reached again via the familiar VPN access. Please coordinate with your superiors whether and to what extent you can be active in mobile working. Further internal systems via VPN are not accessible yet and will be done step by step as soon as the corresponding security concepts have been finally coordinated.
Dear students
You too can now use the university-wide WLAN "hs-kl.de" with increased security and bandwidth. The temporary and provisional WLAN "hs-kl-open" will be deactivated on 17.7.2023. To use the WLAN, it is necessary to change your initial passwords. To do so, please come by the service points that have been set up (see status of the day from 25.06.2023) and pick up your identifiers.
Dear students, dear employees,
even though we have no new news to report at the moment, we would like to let you know that we are still working on solving the current situation over the weekend and are available for you and your concerns.
Dear students, dear employees,
We are aware that you are concerned about the current situation and we naturally take your concerns seriously. We will therefore again offer information events at the three university campuses in the coming week and engage in exchange with you. We will announce the dates in the following days via this page.
In addition, we would like to give you advice and support you in protecting yourself as best as possible. Since it cannot be guaranteed that the published data can be used by third parties, we generally recommend that you take the following measures:
- Change passwords (business and private).
- Check account transactions regularly.
- Keep the anti-virus programme on the private PC and updates of the operating system up to date. Activate the firewall there as well.
- Be alert if
- Your bank reports suspicious credit card payments.
- your contacts notice that spam is being sent from your address.
- Logins do not work although the data are correct.
- Devices such as your PC, laptop or mobile phone have a greatly increased battery consumption.
If you notice irregularities in connection with your data, please contact your local police station immediately or report the matter via the online police station https://www.polizei.rlp.de/onlinewache
General information on the possible consequences of identity theft and corresponding tips on how to behave can be found at:
BSI - Erweiterte Suche (bund.de)
BSI - Methoden der Cyber-Kriminalität (bund.de)
BSI - Digitaler Verbraucherschutz – sicherer Umgang mit Informationstechnik (bund.de)
https://www.sicher-im-netz.de/dsin-f%C3%BCr-verbraucher
https://www.polizei-beratung.de/themen-und-tipps/gefahren-im-internet/
https://kriminalpraevention.rlp.de/de/unsere-themen/cybersicherheit/
https://sec.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/ilc/
Dear students, dear employees,
Your concerns are important to us. We are therefore all the more pleased that we can once again offer you the possibility of contacting us on an ad hoc basis via the "Mein Anliegen" portal at https://mein-anliegen.hs-kl.de/, which you can use to submit your ideas and suggestions to various contact persons (university management, deans, staff council, equal opportunities officers, representatives for the severely disabled) in anonymised or non-anonymised form.
Nevertheless, we would like to inform you that we are in the process of analysing and verifying the data, the leak of which is now known to us through the publication on the Darknet. We will keep you up to date on this and inform you of any further findings and steps.
Dear students, dear employees,
The issuing of initial passwords at all locations has started and the first students can already use our internal systems. This is another step towards more normality in our university operations.
Many thanks to all supporters who have actively helped in preparation and implementation and of course to all students who have already collected their access data.
Unfortunately, we do not have any definitive new information on the data leak at the moment and refer to our announcement of 27.06.2023. We thank you very much for your patience and will contact you as soon as we have new information.
Dear students, dear employees,
We have been informed by the LKA that the auction for our stolen data on the Darknet has been closed. One or more buyers of part of the data have been found and the perpetrators seem to have handed over the data. The part of the data that was not sold has now been published on the darknet for download.
Obviously, we can say that the published data is probably not very much about identity documents, but about data concerning the administration of the university. This could be all the data that you voluntarily provided to the university when you enrolled or were hired. In addition, data that you had stored in your personal drives may have been leaked. Nevertheless, we now expect that the images of the ID documents could fall under the sold data.
We do not know what the buyer(s) will do with the data or those who illegally download the data there. At the same time, we strongly advise against downloading the data leaked on the Darnet ourselves. We would like to point out that this data was provided by the perpetrators and that we have no knowledge of whether the data is also infected with malware. You would therefore risk being personally infected, which we would like to expressly warn you against.
Please now be particularly vigilant with your online accounts and check the movements on them. Based on this attack, we also strongly recommend that you inform yourself about the platform of the Federal Office for Information Securityand take this as an opportunity to check your own IT security.
You are certainly concerned and would like to know what happens next. We would therefore like to inform you about our handling of the leaked data:
We will now once again analyse and verify the data whose leak is now known to us through the publication on the Darknet. Given the amount of data, this process will take some time. For this, we must once again ask for your patience and thank you in advance for your understanding that no individual requests can be processed in this regard. As soon as we have knowledge of the content of the data, we will again take the necessary and appropriate steps and inform you.
Dear students,
Starting tomorrow in Kaiserslautern and Pirmasens, and starting Wednesday in Zweibrücken, the documents for changing the initial password can be picked up upon presentation of your ID card (see Status of the Day from 06/25/2023). Then you can finally use the internal services of the university again.
Persons who are currently unable to collect their IDs in person at the issuing offices due to well-founded exceptional cases should contact the deaneries. They will decide on the further procedure and if and how another possibility of issuance can take place.
Unfortunately, we are not yet able to set up service points to check your private devices for possible infection with the virus and ask you to be patient for this. However, we have been increasingly asked in the plenary meetings which virus scanners can be recommended in the meantime. At this point we would like to inform you that so far we cannot recommend any virus scanner that provides 100% reliable protection. However, to the best of our knowledge, the following scanners produce quite reliable hits and are also used by us to scan the service devices:
To use the scanners, we have created a Seafile folder for you, where we provide a free online scanning solution and instructions. You can see the link to this on the notices at the respective sites in the coming days as well as ask your deaneries. Please support each other, surely there are some IT-savvy students among you who will help your fellow students with scanning. The Unix-AG also offers its support.
At the same time, we are working hard to make sure that you will soon be able to use the scanner Desinfect for free and will provide you with USB sticks via the dean's offices (as long as supplies last). We will inform you via this page as soon as the USB sticks can be handed out.
Dear employees
we have nothing new to report to you at the moment, but you can be sure that we are busy solving all the construction sites.
You will hear from us again tomorrow with information on the latest developments.
Issue of user IDs for students
Dear students,
We are pleased to inform you that from next week you will be able to collect your user IDs for using the university's internal services in person at all university locations upon presentation of your ID card. These access data are, for example, a prerequisite for being able to use the e-mail and cloud services again.
You will need to identify yourself with your ID card when you collect them. You will then receive a written document to change your initial password and can then carry out the password change at home. You will find the procedure and the relevant data on the written document, which you can obtain at the service points set up.
Departments AING and BG at the Kaiserslautern location
Tue-Thu 08:00 to 12:00 hrs.
F0.007
- Virtual Design
- Master ET/IT
- Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
F.0008
- Elektrotechnik
- Energie.-Ing.
F0.009
- all part-time degree programmes
- Mechatronik
- Maschinenbau
F0.010
- Architektur
- Innenarchitektur
- Bauingenieurwesen
- Master Mechanical Engineering / Mechatronics
Students of the Digital Engineering programme are asked to contact their programme director Mr Kettering directly.
For students of the Technische Akademie Südwest (TAS), the user ID is issued on the premises of the TAS. Please contact the contact person on site.
Additional dates in KL:
All students of the vocational programmes can drop in on Friday from 08-14:30 in room F0.014 and all presence students from 08-12:00 in room F0.007.
In addition, we will offer pick-up next week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9-12:00 and 13:30 to 15:00.
International Studienkolleg at the Kaiserslautern Campus
Issue at the campus in Morlauterer Straße
26.06.2023 until 15:30 in A 220
27.06.2023 08:00 to 12:00 h in A 218
28.06.2023 08:00 to 15:30 in A 220
29.06.2023 08:00 to 12:00 in A 218
ALP Department at the Pirmasens location
Tue-Thu 08:00 to 12:00 hrs
A001
- WLP
- Master RPCP
- Leder- und Textiltechnik
A002
- Ang. Pharmazie
- Ang. Chemie
A003
- LDD
- Logistik
- TL
In addition, we will offer pick-up next week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9-12:00.
Departments IMST and BW at the Zweibrücken location
from 9-12 and 13-15 hrs in building H, 1st floor on the following days:
- Wednesday 28.6.
- Thursday 29.6.
- Friday 30.6.
- Monday 3.7.
- Tuesday 4.7.
Please follow the signs there.
We ask for your understanding that at the current time the document for changing the initial password can only be done in person and upon presentation of your identity card. Part-time students or all those who cannot make it possible to come to the university in person at the moment, we ask for a little patience until further possibilities can be examined. In this procedure, too, we would like to put safety before speed.
Dispatch of notification of personal data breach
Dear students, dear employees,
the letters to the affected persons whose data was leaked and published on the darknet during the attack on the IT infrastructure of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences were sent today by registered mail. If you do not receive a notification within the next week, you can assume that you are not affected. We will also find out next week from the Landeskriminalamt whether any other data packages have been published on the Darknet. We will inform you about this here on this page.
Dear employees,
As a supplement to our message from this morning, we would like to remind you that you should also inform cooperation partners who do not fall under the critical infrastructure described in the mail, if data may have leaked out. In these cases, however, no information to the university management is required according to the current status.
Dear employees, dear colleagues, dear students,
by now the scan of the devices has started and you may already know if your computer or drive is affected by the virus. We would like to ask you to check whether data could have been leaked that concern companies of the critical infrastructure and which, for example, have arisen in the course of a joint project.
The critical infrastructure sectors are:
- Energy
- Information technology and telecommunications
- Transportation and traffic
- health care
- Media and culture
- Water and
- Food and beverage
- Finance and insurance
- Municipal waste management
- Government and administration
The size of the company is irrelevant. More information can be found at:
If you have any findings in this regard, please inform the companies (if you have not already done so) and us at praesident@hs-kl.de immediately and directly.
If any of the cooperation partners that you have already informed about the attack include companies from the critical infrastructure, we would also ask you to inform them.
Dear students,
During the information sessions, we were informed of concerns that preparation for exams is not sufficiently possible and that postponing exams could lead to an extension of study time. We can provide you with the following information on this and have also included these answers in our FAQ:
BAföG
Funding beyond the maximum funding period or later submission of the so-called certificate of suitability is possible if the examination failures due to the hacker attack are the specific cause for the delay in studies. It could be that a justification for the examination failure must be provided. If you have individual questions, please contact your case worker in the BAföG department at the RPTU.
Examinations
The departments organise the range of examinations and ensure that this can be fully guaranteed. If you think that individual examinations will be difficult to prepare for, we would like to ask you to inform the examiners in the lectures and, if necessary, the dean's offices in good time. This is the only way to ensure that special concerns can be addressed through appropriate communication, e.g. through the provision of materials elsewhere, permitted aids or specific arrangements for the examinations. The examiners are also informed accordingly that special clarification requirements may exist due to the circumstances in order to support you in preparing for the examination.
Data leaked – what next?
Dear students and employees
if your data was leaked during the attack on the IT infrastructure of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, we will notify you by mail. We will inform you via this web site as soon as the letters have been sent. If you do not receive a notification within the next week, you can assume that you are not affected.
If you feel insecure, in accordance with the recommendation of the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), you can also use the following Internet portals to determine, based on your e-mail address, whether personal access data has been published in known leaks:
HPI Identity Leak Checker: (German) https://sec.hpi.de/ilc/haveibeenpwned.com
HPI Identity Leak Checker (english) https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Dear students, since you are currently not able to use a university e-mail address, you would have to log in with a private e-mail address. If you receive a message from one of these portals, it means that this e-mail address has been published in one or more data leaks. A hit here does not necessarily mean that the data leak is related to the incident at Kaiserslautern University.
The most important tips on what you can do personally to protect yourself in the future are:
– use only strong passwords
– avoid using the same password for different services or user accounts.
– If you have used the same password several times for the university and also in your personal accounts (online services, social media, etc.), you should change it immediately if you have not already done so.
Questions and answers at all locations
Dear students and employees,
thank you very much for taking the opportunity again today to attend the information session on the IT attack on our university at the respective locations and thus stay in touch with us. We have again collected your questions and will do our best to incorporate the answers into the existing FAQand continue to keep you informed via this page in our daily status reports.
For students, we expect to be able to provide a solution for using our internal services in the coming week. We will let you know in advance via this page how you will receive your login credentials.
We are currently still in the process of checking which people are affected by the data leak and sale on the Darknet. Those affected will be informed by us by mail with information on how to proceed. Please refer to our notice dated 20.06.2023 15:00 UHR
Thank you for your patience and see you tomorrow
Dear applicants
You can apply for the summer semester 2024 at the Internationales Studienkolleg of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences:
- online application until 15.10.2023
- sending the application documents by 01.12.2023
Link to the online application
Dear employees,
Here you will find a summary of the latest progress.
All those who already have a new user account can log in to the following services using the new credentials:
- Campusboard: campusboard.online
- Seafile: seafile.rlp.net
- ICMS: icms.hs-kl.de
- QIS: qis.hs-kl.de
- Big Blue Button: bbb.rlp.net
- Panopto: video.hs-kl.de
- OWA- Webmail: mail.zdv.net
Notes on email use:
Employees can log in to their new mailbox via OWA webmail at mail.zdv.net using their new university IDs. Please note that you will only receive new mail through this mailbox and will not be able to view old mail.
The setup and local integration of Outlook is only possible once your device has been checked and cleaned. For this purpose, instructions will be provided by the IT officers of the departments as well as the service centers of the computer center. We ask for your patience until then.
Please make sure that you do not copy any old mails into the mailbox when setting up Outlook so as not to overload the currently limited storage capacity.
Dear students
we are still working hard to get you back into our communication structure via your student email addresses and will keep you updated via this page.
On Thursday, there will be informational meetings at all university locations regarding the current situation. Here you will receive assured information.
Kaiserslautern: Thursday, June 22nd at 9:00 a.m. in room H 1
Pirmasens: Thursday, June 22nd at 2:00 p.m. in the Audimax
Zweibrücken: Thursday, June 22 at 2:00 p.m. in the Audimax
Of course, the invitation is also addressed to our employees!
Dear employees, dear students,
The university management has just been informed by the State Office of Criminal Investigation that data may have been downloaded during the attack on the IT infrastructure and may be published on the Darknet.
This data is currently being investigated to find out what personal data is involved. For this purpose, the university is working in close cooperation with the State Criminal Police Office.
Insofar as the analysis of the data reveals a high risk to your personal rights and freedoms, you will be notified individually by post in accordance with Art. 34 DS-GVO. If you do not receive a notification within the next few weeks, you can assume that you are not affected. You will receive information via this page as soon as the notification has been completed, so that you can rest assured.
We ask for your understanding that we are currently unable to give you any feedback on your individual and urgent question as to whether you may be affected, and the same applies to our implementing staff, who are subject to a duty of confidentiality. Likewise, we ask for your understanding that the concrete data evaluation will take longer due to the number of files. However, we guarantee that we are working at full speed in coordination with the State Criminal Police Office. As soon as possible, we will inform you about the further steps via this page.
Dear students, dear employees,
As you know, the university has been the victim of a cyber attack. We are currently working at full speed to restore the infrastructure to full functionality. Some services such as Campusboard, WLAN, the applicant portal and the Student Secretariat are already available again. Current and important information is available on the replacement website hs-kl-offline.
In view of the false reports currently circulating in social media, we expressly warn you not to react to such posts or messages or to make contact. You may be liable to prosecution yourself.
Here on the hs-kl-offline website, all interested parties will receive correct, up-to-date and reliable information.
The plenary meetings will be offered again this week, as they were last week. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions again. Of course, you can also get answers to your questions in person or by phone at the emergency numbers.
Kaiserslautern: Thursday, June 22 at 9:00 a.m. in room H 1
Pirmasens: Thursday, June 22 at 2:00 p.m. in the Audimax
Zweibrücken: Thursday, June 22 at 2:00 p.m. in the Audimax
Dear employees,
Service points are now available for you to check your mobile devices (laptops) at all three university locations. Please get in touch with the relevant contact person in advance.
The staff of the Computer Centre for Administration will contact you separately to check the towers (permanently installed computers). For the employees of the units and staff units, a contact person from the Digital and Media Unit is available to you. Please contact Mr Kai Kehrer directly (Room E 1.030 / -2423).
Staff of the departments are asked to contact the IT officers or to contact their deaneries.
Service points for checking mobile devices
Kaiserslautern location:
Harald Schmitt
Tel.: -2403
Room: Service Point E 0.020
Service hours:
Mon: 08:00-12:00 h and 13:00-16:00 h
Tue: 08:00-12:00 h and 13:00-16:00 h
Wed: 08:00-12:00 h and 13:00-16:00 h
Thu: 08:00-12:00 h and 13:00-16:00 h
Fri: 08:00-12:00 h and 13:00-16:00 h
Pirmasens location:
Yann Nicklas Riede, Auxiliary Researcher
Tel. -7042
Room: B016
Service hours:
Mon:10:00 - 13:00
Tue: 10:00 - 13:00
Wed: 07:30 - 13:00 hrs
Thu: 10:00 - 13:00 hrs
Fri: no office hours
Zweibrücken location:
Marc Burger, Assistant Researcher
Tel. -5163
Room: O226
Service hours
Mon: 08:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Tue: 10:00 - 12:00 h and 12:30 - 13:30 h
Wed: 10:00 - 12:00 h and 12:30 - 13:30 h
Thu: 10:00 - 12:00 h and 12:30 - 13:30 h
Fri: 09:00 - 13:00 hrs
Dear students,
we are working on setting up service points for you directly after the staff work equipment has been checked. You will receive all the information you need on this page.
[Translate to Englisch:]
Liebe Mitarbeitende,
wir weisen Sie nochmals darauf hin, dass Sie sich Ihre neuen Zugangsdaten zeitnah bei den zuständigen Mitarbeitenden aus dem Dezernat Personal abholen müssen. Die Kennungen sind zwischen 08:15 und 16 Uhr in den folgenden Räume erhältlich:
Kaiserslautern: F3012
Zweibrücken: H104
Pirmasens: Studierendensekretariat gegenüber von Raum Prag
Bitte vergessen Sie nicht Ihren Personalausweis und beachten Sie die Informationen auf dieser Seite vom 13.06.2023!
Liebe Studierende,
sobald wir Ihnen ebenfalls Ihre neu generierten Zugangsdaten zur Verfügung stellen können, informieren wir Sie über diese Seite. Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld.
Dear employees, dear students,
We are pleased to inform you that our staff are once again available for communication via e-mail and that webmail is working again. Staff can log in with the new university IDs. Outlook can be set up as soon as your device has been checked and cleaned. You will be assisted in setting it up by the relevant service centres.
Dear students,
We are working flat out to make e-mail communication possible for you as well and ask for your patience. You will receive all relevant information on this page.
WLAN at all university locations
Dear students,
You now have the opportunity to access the internet via WLAN at the university campuses in Kaiserslautern, Zweibrücken and Pirmasens. Please take note of the notices in the lecture rooms.
Dear employees,
You can also log on to the university's WLAN (hs-kl.de) with your user ID and the newly assigned password (access data that you received from the Human Resources Department).
We are also pleased to inform you that our staff will be reachable by e-mail again in the coming days. Tomorrow, the IT representatives will receive the necessary information to pass on to the staff.
Please continue to observe the requirement that all computers that are connected to the network must be checked in advance. Staff can now contact the Computer Centre and the IT representatives of the departments. Service points will also be set up for students in the coming days; we will inform you in advance via this page.
Thank you for your patience and see you tomorrow
Also on weekends
Dear students, dear employees,
although you do not hear anything new from us at the moment, we would like to inform you that we are also working flat out on the weekend to solve the current situation and are available for you and your concerns.
We will inform you again tomorrow about the latest developments.
You ask – we answer
Dear students, dear employees,
We have received your questions during the information events and through many other channels. We are currently busy processing them for everyone and providing you with the answers in the form of a FAQ on this page (hs-kl-offline).
New information events
Dear students, dear employees,
we would like to thank you very much for your patience and perseverance so far. Thank you also for attending the information events in such large numbers. Last but not least, your questions have helped all of us to better understand the current situation. Please continue to let the university management know your questions and concerns through your direct supervisors, professors and dean's offices so that they can address them.
Additional information sessions will be held at our university campuses in the coming week. We ask you to reserve the following dates for them:
Kaiserslautern: Thursday, June 22 at 9:00 a.m. in room H 1
Pirmasens: Thursday, June 22 at 2:00 p.m. in the Audimax
Zweibrücken: Thursday, June 22 at 2:00 p.m. in the Audimax
We will continue to keep you informed about current developments over the weekend.
Some of our students are employed by you as working students and you may be concerned that your systems or devices could also be affected by the cyber attack on our university. In this case you have the possibility to contact us directly, we will be happy to provide information and advise you on how to proceed in the current situation.
You can reach us at: +49 179 1132684
[Translate to Englisch:]
As of Saturday, June 17, 2023, only 2 stations will be available at Campus Kammgarn for charging electronic keys. Namely the two stations between the houses E and F. Please note!
Information sessions and campusboard
Dear students, dear employees,
Today, the first information sessions about the cyber attack on our university took place at the Kaiserslautern and Zweibrücken campuses. We thank you very much for the exchange as well as your questions. Tomorrow, there will be another meeting in Pirmasens. We will offer further information events for you at the three locations in the coming week.
You can still forward individual questions and concerns to the university management via your direct supervisors, professors* and deaneries.
And we have good news at the end of the day: Campusboard is available again. This means that all freely accessible information is available again, such as the list of persons, module handbooks, and examination and timetables.
Thank you for your perseverance and patience!
Dear students,
due to instability, the services of the Student Secretariat and the Examination Office cannot be used yet. We will contact you as soon as we know more. Please be patient.
Therefore, registrations and cancellations for examinations can still be submitted by telephone or informally in writing. Your department will inform you about the respective regulations in your study program.
Dear employees,
You are, of course, also invited to the info rounds at the sites. We have received a number of requests for this, so we are renewing the invitation here.
Important information for students
Dear students,
We are pleased to announce, as of today, the Student Secretariat and the Examination Office are operational again and are thus more comprehensively available to you for questions than they have been in the last few days. Even though we cannot yet offer you all the self-service options, you can now contact us if you need documents such as matriculation certificates. You can reach us at the known telephone numbers and at our offices.
List of telephone numbers:
- FB AING: 0631 3724-2113, -2132, 2126, -2273, -2191, -4464
- FB ALP: 0631 3724-7108, -7089, -7011, -7057, -7089
- FB BG: 0631 3724-2270, -2132, -4407, -4406
- FB BW: 0631 3724-5154, -5174, -5171, -5125, -5170, -5177, -5176, -5172
- FB IMST: 0631 3724-5154, -5174, -5171, -5123, -5177
- Internationales Studienkolleg: 0631 3724-4703, -4702, -4713, -2033
We have also received questions about whether there is a reliable way to check your own devices for possible viruses. A virus scan is certainly always useful. However, we cannot recommend any scanner 100%. If you have access to several scanners, use them. As soon as we have new information on this, we will publish it here.
Furthermore, the Campusboard team is working to make this tool available to you this week as well, if possible. We know that many of you use Campusboard intensively and are therefore very grateful that the team has found solutions so quickly to get started.
To give you the chance to communicate directly with us and ask questions, I would like to welcome you to info meetings at our three locations:
- KL: Thursday, 15.06.2023, at 11:30 a.m., H1.
- PS: Friday, 16.06.2023, at 12:00, Aula
- ZW: Thursday, 15.06.2023, at 15:00, Audimax
Please also note the subpages where the departments and other organisational units of the university always provide you with the latest information.
Dear staff members,
You are, of course, also cordially invited!
Since the hacker attack on our university on 8 June, all wheels seem to have come to a standstill. It looks as if nothing is working and the flow of information is at a standstill. We apologise for this. This is a disaster, especially for staff, students and all those potentially interested in studying. You want to know how things are going to continue, how you are supposed to do your daily work without computer access, how you can register for exams or access course content from the learning platforms.
A crisis team is working around the clock to set up a new IT infrastructure.
The unsatisfactory news: there are no answers for many questions yet. But as soon as there is any progress or new findings, we will inform you immediately via this page.
Dear students and staff, we have not lost sight of you and your concerns. But please understand that the situation does not allow us to answer individual questions. Therefore, we will inform you about the current state of knowledge in the next two days at general assemblies for students and staff at all locations:
- Kaiserslautern: Thursday, 15.06. at 11:30h in room H1
- Zweibrücken: Thursday, 15.06. at 15h in the Audimax
- Pirmasens: Friday, 16.06. at 12h, room see notices at the location
We are very optimistic that there will already be solutions for individual requirements in the next few days. By setting up a daily status report, we want to keep you up to date.
Wherever necessary, we will rely on your support and, above all, your understanding. What we need now is patience, patience and patience again. Patience and trust in the crisis team at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences. Please inform yourself regularly here on this page.
Even if it sometimes doesn't look like it: We are with you and your concerns. We are continuously striving to restore normal operations at our university.
You can pass on individual questions and concerns to the university management via your direct superiors, professors and deans. We care.
Your university management of the HS KL
Dear employees,
we are pleased to inform you that from now on you can pick up your access data from the responsible employees (see status of the day from 13.06.).
Dear employees,
the release of the access data is currently delayed. We will inform you via this page as soon as the identifiers can be picked up.
Thank you for your patience.
Dear employees,
We are pleased to announce that our employees will be able to pick up their intranet access codes at all locations as early as tomorrow. These access identifiers are a prerequisite for being able to use the e-mail and cloud services again shortly.
The identifiers will be available between 8:15 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. in the following rooms:
- Zweibrücken: H104
- Kaiserslautern: F3012
- Pirmasens: Student secretariat opposite above room Prag
You will need to identify yourself when you pick up, immediately change the initial password and remember it. When the e-mail and cloud and video services are available again in the coming days, you can log in with your ID and new (self-given) password. However, these credentials will not apply to your computer. Your computer may only be used again after it has been released by the data center. Please be patient, it will take a few more days until all computers are available. So, please do not log in with it, but wait for our release.
We thank you for staying in touch with us despite the circumstances and will then soon also have reached another milestone with the e-mail services.
Please continue to coordinate closely with your supervisors on what and how to work in this particular situation. We will try to communicate further developments through supervisors at an early stage.
Dear students,
as soon as we can foresee that we can also provide you with access data and e-mail, we will inform you here immediately. Please be patient a little longer.
You will find information about your studies, examinations, etc. on the pages of your department, the dean's office or the examination office.
Until tomorrow
Dear employees: Until Campusboard is available again, we ask you to submit an informal business trip application with the following information for business trips:
Business trip application
- Name
- Location
- Destination
- Reason for travel
- Requested means of transport (for cars with reason)
- Cost centre (title, institute / project)
- Signature + Signature Dean / Project Management / Head of Unit
This procedure applies until further notice. If you have any questions, please contact the responsible staff in the Budget Department.
Good news: The telephone system is up and running again without any restrictions. In the meantime, not only individual telephone numbers of Kaiserslautern University can be reached, but all extensions at all locations can be dialed directly. Accordingly, calls can be made from all extensions both internally and to external connections.
Dear employees, please record your working hours manually until further notice. If you have any further questions regarding time recording, please do not hesitate to contact the staff of the Human Resources Department.
Current and personal information is now available to employees under the telephone number:
0631 3724-2116
This is manned from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
For internal information in Zweibrücken, Tanja Kuntz is available on site during these hours to answer questions.
As of Monday, June 12, 2023, you can reach the Student Secretariat and the Examinations Office daily by telephone between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.. The colleagues will be happy to help you - as far as possible - with current information.
- Student secretariat: Petra Helfrich, Phone: +49 631 3724-2113
- Examinations Office: Nicole Haußner, Phone: +49 631 3724-4406
The telephone system is also affected by the shutdown of the communication systems at Hochschule Kaiserslautern, University of Applied Sciences. You can still reach us under the following emergency number +49 172 285 7148. We will make every effort to provide additional, then also more target group-specific numbers as soon as possible. We will also publish these here.
Whenever there is news worth reporting, we will immediately inform you about any new developments. Please note that you can only receive reliable information from this emergency website.
As this is an encryption attack, the workstations at the employees' workplaces may also be affected. Therefore, the following applies to all employees: Please do not switch on the computers again until there are new instructions. We will inform you about the further procedure as soon as possible.
We have informed important partners and organizations about the attack. These include the State Criminal Police Office, the Ministry of Science and Health, our data protection officer and the state data protection officer. We are also in constructive exchange with the BSI, DFNcert, VCRP, ZIT and the university data centers in Mainz and Kaiserslautern.
Dear students, dear employees of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences,
unfortunately, our IT infrastructure has been affected by a hacker attack. Therefore, the entire IT infrastructure of the university is currently not available. This also includes e-mail communication as well as all accesses for which you need your university login (also from home).
Thus, the main service facilities such as the library, the computer pools, the student secretariat, etc. will remain closed until further notice.
Please understand that we cannot publish any further information at this point!
We will keep you updated on this page.
Yours sincerely,
Your university management