{"id":26943,"date":"2025-11-06T19:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26943\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:06:09","slug":"u-of-pennsylvania-alumni-sue-over-cyber-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26943\/","title":{"rendered":"U. of Pennsylvania alumni sue over cyber breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three former students at the University of Pennsylvania are suing the institution, claiming it failed to protect their sensitive personal information, WPHL <a href=\"https:\/\/phl17.com\/phl17-news\/penn-alumni-sue-university-over-cybersecurity-breach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suit stems from an incident last month in which vulgar emails were sent from Penn\u2019s Graduate School of Education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/phl17.com\/politics\/vulgar-message-sent-from-hacked-upenn-email\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the email<\/a> read. \u201cWe hire and admit morons because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the university said it was investigating the incident \u201caround the clock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenn has notified the FBI and continues to work with law enforcement,\u201d a statement from university leaders read. \u201cWe are investigating the incident with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity professionals, including CrowdStrike, an industry leader in cybersecurity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the actors purportedly responsible for the attack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/university-of-pennsylvania-hacker-claims-1.2-million-donor-data-breach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Bleeping Computer<\/a> that the operation yielded data for roughly 1.2 million students, alumni and donors. The data publication reported that the data included names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, estimated net worths, donation histories and demographic details, such as religion, race and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ea8b076b398ee48b71cfaecf898c582b\" alt=\"EdScoop Staff\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tWritten by EdScoop Staff\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three former students at the University of Pennsylvania are suing the institution, claiming it failed to protect their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17648,2962,14963,2676,28,30,29,17649,17650,4347],"class_list":["post-26943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-cyberattack","tag-cybersecurity","tag-emails","tag-lawsuit","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-technology-news","tag-university-news","tag-university-of-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943","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=26943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}