A hacker fired off a series of “incredibly offensive” emails purporting to be from the University of Pennsylvania that slammed its “woke” staff and student body of “morons.”
The scathing message — sent multiple times — featured the Ivy League school’s Graduate School of Education letterhead and was sent from multiple University-affiliated email addresses.
The subject line read “We got hacked,” according to a copy obtained by Fox News.
An email with the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education letterhead was sent out calling the school a “dogs–t elitist institution full of woke r——.” reddit
“The University of Pennsylvania is a dogs–t elitist institution full of woke retards. We have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic,” the email stated.”
We hire and admit morons because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits. We love breaking federal laws like FERPA (all your data will be leaked) and Supreme Court rulings like SFFA.
The email concluded: “Please stop giving us money.”
Some students reported receiving the harsh message as many as six times.
The school did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment, but said in a statement on its website that the “fraudulent emails” were under investigation by the University’s Office of Information Security.
“All of the emails are incredibly offensive and in no way reflective of Penn or Penn GSE’s mission or values. We sincerely apologize for the harm this has caused and is causing. Over and above the inconvenience of getting your inboxes spammed, these emails are hurtful and upsetting,” UPenn stated.
Officials are reportedly denying that the graduate school’s account was hacked, according to internal messages obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, a University of Pennsylvania student newspaper.
“A fraudulent email has been circulated,” the school said. “This is obviously a fake, and nothing in the highly offensive, hurtful message reflects the mission or actions of Penn or of Penn GSE.” Lee – stock.adobe.com
“These emails are being received by individuals outside of UPenn as well. It appears that some email list, which is beyond our control, was accessed by malicious individuals who then sent out these messages,” wrote Elizabeth Cooper, the school’s IT help desk manager, emphasizing that UPenn’s Annenberg School for Communication “has not been hacked.”
She added that, “At this time, there is nothing for us to do, but we wanted to keep you informed.”
It’s not the first time that UPenn students have been victims of fraudulent emails.
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Last year, a significant number of students received fake messages appearing to impersonate the communications from the University Board of Trustees that referred to the school as “beholden to the richest, scummiest people out there.”
It also claimed former President Liz Magill would return to her post “after nearly three months of timeout.”
Magill stepped down from the job in December 2023 after failing to protect Jewish students from surging antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack.