Hackers threaten to leak ‘woke’ University of Pennsylvania student data

“We got hacked,” members of the University of Pennsylvania assemblage were told successful the taxable enactment of respective emails sent from addresses linked to its Graduate School of Education. The sender, apparently, was the imaginable hacker oregon hackers themselves.

“The University of Pennsylvania is simply a dogshit elitist instauration afloat of woke retards,” said the emails, which were received by respective alumni including a Verge writer who attended the University of Pennsylvania. “We person unspeakable information practices and are wholly unmeritocratic. We prosecute and admit morons due to the fact that we emotion legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative enactment admits. We emotion breaking national laws similar FERPA (all your information volition beryllium leaked) and Supreme Court rulings similar SFFA. Please halt giving america money.”

The evident hacker oregon hackers referenced the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which protects the privateness of students’ idiosyncratic accusation that’s shared with schools. SFFA appears to notation to Students for Fair Admissions, the radical that was astatine the forefront of the Supreme Court ruling that struck down race-based affirmative enactment for assemblage admissions. 

Penn acknowledged the beingness of the messages successful a connection connected its website. “A fraudulent email is presently being circulated that appears to travel from a Penn GSE relationship with the taxable “We got hacked (Action Required)” oregon similar,“ it says. ”The University’s Office of Information Security is alert of the situation, and their Incident Response squad is actively addressing it.”

Penn would not beryllium the archetypal Ivy League schoolhouse to beryllium hacked this twelvemonth by what seems to beryllium politically-motivated attackers. Columbia University was the people of a breach earlier this year reportedly impacting decades of admissions data. The alleged hacker told Bloomberg they were looking for signs that it had continued affirmative enactment policies aft the Supreme Court struck it down. Both schools person been astatine the halfway of governmental firestorms implicit their handling of protests implicit Israel’s warfare successful Gaza. The alleged Columbia hacker — a self-proclaimedly “violently racist” and pro-Hitler figure whose grip includes a radical slur — besides took recognition for 2 different hacks astatine New York University and the University of Minnesota.