Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 17:45     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Anonymous wrote:An email to the Penn community accused the school of violating the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling:

“The University of Pennsylvania is a dogsh*t elitist institution full of woke r*tards,” 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.”

https://www.theverge.com/news/811600/university-of-pennsylvania-hack-woke





yikes
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 17:29     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Anonymous wrote:Wharton MBA who got one e-mail. Some of my classmates got many.

If they want to release my app, have at it. My undergrad GPA wasn't great but my GMATs were super high - happy to advertise that!


Nobody really cares about MBA admissions.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 16:48     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Penn is less woke than most of the top 10. They place a premium on merit compared to the woke at Harvard and Yale.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 16:47     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Great. they'll find out that my DC, current student, legacy, was more than qualified for admission and got in even though I've donated pennies over the years. The truth is that these days, most legacy admits are at least as qualified on paper as other admits.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 16:43     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Anonymous wrote:I think that they stated they're going to release admissions data showing how UPenn is "unmeritocratic".


Did they ever claim to be? Do they need to be? Who cares if they are?

How is this a threat (other than the unauthorized release of personal information?
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 16:39     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Anonymous wrote:An email to the Penn community accused the school of violating the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling:

“The University of Pennsylvania is a dogsh*t elitist institution full of woke r*tards,” 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.”

https://www.theverge.com/news/811600/university-of-pennsylvania-hack-woke





yup I'm a Penn law alum and I got this email and one other too. pretty awful stuff.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 16:30     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
UPenn uses Slate. All that is required is to get an administrator's level of access which if they sent out that email from various UPenn servers (most likely hosted by Google), then they made themselves known loud and clear...which means they already gained access. Otherwise they would be using their purportedly newfound email access credential to get that access.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 16:25     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Anonymous wrote:It is through email that most backend system databases get compromised.


aka exploiting human error...
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 16:24     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
It is through email that most backend system databases get compromised.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 16:20     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Release
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 15:50     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The expectation is that with master administration credentials the hackers had access to all UPenn's systems, including its admission files. The hard part was gaining the credential.


The thought is that they were able to phish a few high-profile users and gain their PW to their accounts and send emails from them.

Nobody thinks they got the administrator rights to the email system.


So they probably got access to small application that holds email communication lists. These are used by various groups to send mass communications to various groups. It’s sometimes referred to as broadcast email. No University runs its own email system in 2025, it’s likely Google. The admissions systems would be Slate, WD, or if they are antiquated maybe old version of peoplesoft from back in the day.

I’d be surprised if U Penn wasn’t using two factor authentication for these systems.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 15:43     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Anonymous wrote:The expectation is that with master administration credentials the hackers had access to all UPenn's systems, including its admission files. The hard part was gaining the credential.


The thought is that they were able to phish a few high-profile users and gain their PW to their accounts and send emails from them.

Nobody thinks they got the administrator rights to the email system.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 15:42     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
The expectation is that with master administration credentials the hackers had access to all UPenn's systems, including its admission files. The hard part was gaining the credential.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 15:36     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
An email to the Penn community accused the school of violating the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling:

“The University of Pennsylvania is a dogsh*t elitist institution full of woke r*tards,” 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.”

https://www.theverge.com/news/811600/university-of-pennsylvania-hack-woke



Anonymous
Post 10/31/2025 14:26     Subject: UPenn has been hacked and the hackers are threatening to release admissions data for donors, legacies
Wharton MBA who got one e-mail. Some of my classmates got many.

If they want to release my app, have at it. My undergrad GPA wasn't great but my GMATs were super high - happy to advertise that!