From the Daily Pennsylvanian: Penn appears to have experienced a cybersecurity breach... after a series of mass emails were sent to students, faculty, alumni, and parents from accounts linked to the Graduate School of Education. The messages — sent from multiple University-affiliated email addresses — were addressed to the Penn community and contained criticisms of the University’s security practices and institutional purpose, according to copies of the messages reviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian. Penn’s Information Systems & Computing office wrote in a statement that it is “working with our campus partners to resolve the issue."
“We hire and admit morons because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits,” the email — which contains profane language and a slur — read in part.
In an email to the Penn GSE community, a spokesperson for the school described the emails as “highly offensive,” adding that they “are in no way reflective of Penn or Penn GSE's mission or actions.” ...
Full story at https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/10/penn-gse-emails-we-got-hacked-subject-security-breach.
From the Daily Pennsylvanian: Following a series of mass emails alleging Penn had been hacked, individuals claiming responsibility for the security breach released thousands of pages of internal University files on Nov. 1. The documents — which were released by the alleged hacker on LeakForum and reviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian — include internal University talking points, memos about donors and their families, receipts of bank transactions, and personal identifying information. In a message accompanying the data, the group claimed that it gained “full access” to a University employee’s PennKey account and export data on “1.2 million University of Pennsylvania students, alumni, and donors” from University databases...
Full story at https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/11/penn-hack-documents-released-gse-emails-data.
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