Alleged U Penn hacker claims they're in it for money, not 'primarily "anti-DEI"'

"A person claiming to be one of the University of Pennsylvania hackers says that about "1.2 million lines of data" will be kept private for the group to sell before it is made public. The group also plans to make other documents public. In comments to The Verge, the hacker or hackers distanced themselves from earlier hacks of other private universities including Columbia - which were aimed at demonstrating colleges had maintained unlawful pro-diversity policies."

""Our main goal was to get the wealthy donor database," they said via Signal. An email that said, "We hire and admit morons, because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits," was "just a fun rant," they claimed. Leaked data includes internal documents that appear to be internal university talking points about the congressional testimony of former university president Liz Magill."

A person claiming to be one of the University of Pennsylvania hackers says about 1.2 million lines of data will be kept private for the group to sell before being made public. The group plans to make other documents public. The perpetrators distanced themselves from earlier hacks of other private universities, saying their main goal was to obtain the wealthy donor database. An inflammatory internal email was characterized as a "fun rant." Leaked material includes internal university talking points related to former president Liz Magill's congressional testimony. The university is investigating, has reported the breach to the FBI, and a sample appears to include emails, phone numbers, addresses, donation dates, and religion; two people confirmed their information.

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