Plagiarism was the issue, approached systematically first in 2011, in the wake of the Guttenberg† scandal. (Plagiarism was discovered in defense minister Guttenberg’s dissertation in early 2011. His title was subsequently revoked by his university and he resigned as defense minister.)

After the Guttenberg scandal a wiki sprung up which investigated more past academic works from people, first mostly politicians.

Now, plagiarism is a serious issue, but these politicians were not “faking” their academic records. They actually had those titles, the universities had just failed to identify their plagiarism and given them the titles in spite of it.

As such hacking them won’t likely reveal such scandals, only actually looking at those (already public) academic works and searching for plagiarism will … which is what has already been happening.

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† Annette Schavan resigned two years earlier because of plagiarism-accusations, so his wasn’t the first case, even when only looking at recent cases.