What Happened
In late 2025, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), often abbreviated as Qmul, suffered a data breach where an alleged database leak exposed email records of approximately 120,000 staff and students collected between 2020 and 2025, according to reports from cybersecurity monitoring sites. A related alert from November 29, 2025, referenced an alleged leak of 85,000 records from QMUL’s database advertised on a cybercrime forum. The incident aligns with broader cybersecurity vulnerabilities at UK universities, though QMUL’s official statements in a separate spam bot attack (date unspecified) claimed no data compromise occurred. No confirmed breach details for exactly 2025 were verified by regulatory bodies like the ICO in available reports.
