"Other Penn affiliates have received the email multiple times from different senders with official @upenn.edu email addresses. (Disclosure: As an alumna and former employee of the university, I have received the message three times thus far to my personal email.) Penn spokesperson Ron Ozio told TechCrunch in an email on Friday that the school's incident response team is actively addressing the situation."
"A fraudulent email has been circulated that appears to come from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. This is obviously a fake, and nothing in the highly offensive, hurtful message reflects the mission or actions of Penn or of Penn GSE, Ozio said. As the hackers plainly stated in their message (Please stop giving us money), this breach appears motivated to suppress alumni donations."
Fraudulent messages claiming to originate from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education were sent to alumni, students, staff, and community affiliates using multiple official @upenn.edu accounts and allegedly from senior staff. Recipients reported receiving the same message repeatedly from different Penn-affiliated senders. A university spokesperson confirmed the messages are fake, stated they do not reflect institutional mission, and said the incident response team is actively addressing the situation. The hackers explicitly urged donors to stop giving money, indicating an apparent motive to suppress alumni donations. The breach followed Penn and six other schools rejecting a White House Compact tied to federal funding.
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