Leak at Alumni Université Côte d'Azur (via AlumnForce)

On 10 April 2026, Alumni Université Côte d'Azur — the graduate network of the Université Côte d'Azur in Nice — was named among the victims of a large data breach affecting AlumnForce, a French software provider that powers alumni community platforms for dozens of universities and grandes écoles.

The breach did not originate at the university itself but at its third-party platform provider. According to reporting, an attacker first scraped the Université Côte d'Azur online directory (around 50,000 people), noticed the institution's AlumnForce-powered alumni section, and pivoted to compromise the broader AlumnForce database. The full leak spans roughly 2.7 million profiles across 49 French higher-education institutions, including more than 1.83 million unique email addresses and over 651,000 phone numbers, and was offered for sale on a cybercrime forum.

For Université Côte d'Azur alumni, the exposed records reportedly included:

• Name and first name
• Email address and phone number
• Postal code and city
• Current job title and professional experience
• Career path within the alumni network, career aspirations and desired roles
• Degree obtained and year of graduation, plus skills

The combination of contact details with professional and job-seeking information makes affected graduates particularly exposed to targeted phishing and fraudulent recruiter scams. Several affected institutions confirmed the incident and notified their members, and AlumnForce users were urged to change their passwords and stay vigilant against tailored phishing.