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Hacker With 'Political Agenda' Stole Data From Columbia, University Says
Thursday July 3, 2025. 02:45 AM , from Slashdot
![]() The threat actor reportedly told Bloomberg he was seeking information that would indicate whether the university continues to use affirmative action in admissions despite a 2023 Supreme Court decision prohibiting the practice. The hacker told Bloomberg he obtained 460 gigabytes of data in total -- after spending two months targeting and penetrating increasingly privileged layers of the university's servers -- and said he harvested information about financial aid packages, employee pay and at least 1.8 million Social Security numbers belonging to employees, applicants, students and their family members. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/0012219/hacker-with-political-agenda-stole-data-from-columb...
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