On Friday morning, University of Pennsylvania alumni, students, staff, and community affiliates received several emails from hackers purporting to represent the university’s Graduate School of Education (GSE).

“We have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic,” read the email. “We love breaking federal rules like FERPA (all your data will be leaked).”

A partially redacted email sent by hackers with access to the university of Pennsylvania email system. Image Credits: TechCrunch (screenshot)

This message was sent from a variety of different Penn-affiliated email accounts, such as the GSE, as well as purporting to come from several senior members of staff across the university.

Other Penn affiliates have received the email multiple times from different senders wi

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