ésam Caen/Cherbourg
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The École supérieure d'arts et médias (ésam), based in Caen and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, suffered unauthorized access to its hosting infrastructure and related applications on August 21, 2026, only detected on September 3 — partly because the school was closed for summer. On September 8, 2026, the school issued a statement saying personal data of users and staff may have been exposed, without specifying the number of people affected, the exact data categories, or whether data was actually exfiltrated. The school notified the French data protection authority (CNIL) and filed a criminal complaint.
- Disclosed on
- September 8, 2026
- Incident dated
- August 21, 2026
- Sector
- Education
- Country
- France
- Cause
- Undisclosed
Exposed data
- Other personal data
You are only affected if you had an account or an order with this organisation.
What you can do
- You can ask the organisation exactly what was exposed about you (right of access), and complain to the DPA if no answer comes within a month.
Sources
- Fuite de données chez ésam Caen/CherbourgFuites Infos
- L'ésam Caen/Cherbourg victime d'une cyberattaque en pleine rentrée universitairecyberattaque.org
- Cyberattaque à l'ESAM Caen/Cherbourg : des données personnelles exposéesFrench Breaches
- Cyberattaque à l'Esam Caen/Cherbourg : des données personnelles potentiellement exposéesTitresPresse
- Une école de Cherbourg victime d'un acte de cyber-malveillance, une plainte déposéeICI Normandie
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