""The University of Pennsylvania is a dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards," said the emails, which were received by several alumni including a Verge author who attended the University of Pennsylvania. "We 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.""
"The apparent hacker or hackers referenced the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which protects the privacy of students' personal information that's 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. Penn acknowledged the existence of the messages in a statement on its website."
Several emails sent from addresses linked to the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education used the subject line "We got hacked" and appeared to originate from the attackers themselves. The messages contained abusive accusations about elitism, poor security, and unmeritocratic admissions, and threatened to expose FERPA-protected student data. The senders referenced SFFA and affirmative action policies. The University's Office of Information Security confirmed a fraudulent email circulation and said its Incident Response team is actively addressing the situation. The incident follows an alleged politically motivated breach at another Ivy League school that targeted admissions records.
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