University of Pennsylvania says it has called FBI over data breach
Source: Yahoo! News/Reuters
Mon, November 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The University of Pennsylvania says it has called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation after offensive emails were distributed to alumni.
In a statement, the university said that a data breach had affected "select information systems."
"We are working with law enforcement as well as other third-party technical resources to address this as rapidly as possible," the university said Monday. The FBI did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
An email sent to University of Pennsylvania alumni on Friday and reviewed by Reuters showed that someone masquerading as the university slammed the institution as being "elitist," "woke," and "completely unmeritocratic" and used other, cruder language to describe its staff and students.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/university-pennsylvania-says-called-fbi-235924570.html
I just heard a radio report this morning that said the hacker(s) communicated with the tech site "Bleeping Computer" and described what was done and why -
By Lawrence Abrams November 2, 2025 05:07 PM
A hacker has taken responsibility for last week's University of Pennsylvania "We got hacked" email incident, saying it was a far more extensive breach that exposed data on 1.2 million donors and internal documents. On Friday, University of Pennsylvania alumni and students began receiving multiple offensive emails from Penn.edu addresses claiming the university had been hacked and data stolen.
"The University of Pennsylvania is a dog**** elitist institution full of woke retards. We have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic," reads the email sent to Penn alumni and students. "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."
BleepingComputer confirmed the emails originated from connect.upenn.edu, a Penn mailing list platform hosted on Salesforce Marketing Cloud. The university downplayed the incident, describing the messages as "fraudulent emails" that were "obviously fake." However, the threat actor behind the attack contacted BleepingComputer, claiming the intrusion was far broader and that they had gained access to multiple university systems.
The hacker said their group "gained full access" to an employee's PennKey SSO account, allowing access to Penn's VPN, Salesforce data, Qlik analytics platform, SAP business intelligence system, and SharePoint files.completely unmeritocratic," reads the email sent to Penn alumni and students.
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That right there in the highlight tells you exactly who the criminal(s) is/are - RW loons. But the RW corporate media doesn't want to admit it and just glosses it over with weasel word descriptions of the email content.
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