{"id":21047,"date":"2025-10-31T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21047\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:26:08","slug":"hackers-threaten-to-leak-woke-university-of-pennsylvania-student-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21047\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers threaten to leak \u2018woke\u2019 University of Pennsylvania student data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe got hacked,\u201d members of the University of Pennsylvania community were told in the subject line of several emails sent from addresses linked to its Graduate School of Education. The sender, apparently, was the potential hacker or hackers themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cThe University of Pennsylvania is a dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards,\u201d said the emails, which were received by several alumni including a Verge author who attended the University of Pennsylvania. \u201cWe have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic. 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. Please stop giving us money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The apparent hacker or hackers referenced the <a href=\"http:\/\/studentprivacy.ed.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/resource_document\/file\/A%20parent%20guide%20to%20ferpa_508.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act<\/a>, which protects the privacy of students\u2019 personal information that\u2019s shared with schools. SFFA appears to refer to Students for Fair Admissions, the group that was at the forefront of the Supreme Court ruling that struck down race-based affirmative action for college admissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Penn acknowledged the existence of the messages in a statement on its website. \u201cA fraudulent email is currently being circulated that appears to come from a Penn GSE account with the subject \u201cWe got hacked (Action Required)\u201d or similar,\u201c it says. \u201dThe University\u2019s Office of Information Security is aware of the situation, and their Incident Response team is actively addressing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe got hacked,\u201d members of the University of Pennsylvania community were told in the subject line of several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[139,28,30,29,5647,50,3860,8272],"class_list":["post-21047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-security","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}