Pen State got hacked recently, emails may have been offensive

Offensive is very vague. These days, it goes well beyond the four letter sware words as well as other words that are not necessarily allowed via radio communications in most circumstances.

From Jaws and its picture smart tool, it says:

The image is a screenshot of an email from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE), with the subject “We got hacked (Action Required).” The email contains offensive and derogatory language criticizing the university’s policies, security, and admissions. It falsely claims the university hires unqualified people and breaks federal laws like FERPA. The message ends with a plea to stop giving the university money and is signed “Warm regards, The University of Pennsylvania.” The official university logo and contact details appear at the top and bottom.

Let’s see what we can do with this rticle.

The beginning of the article says:

The University of Pennsylvania suffered a cybersecurity incident on Friday, where students and alumni received a series of offensive emails from various University email addresses, claiming that data was stolen in a breach.

The emails have a subject line of “We got hacked (Action Required)” and claim that data was stolen during an alleged breach, also calling out the University over its security practices and admission policies.

While there are words in here I’m not too familiar with including Woke, the article does have what the email has. I’m wondering if dog with the 4 stars would mean dogshit, and that could be offensive. But could it be an opinion of the actor or actors who apparently breached the institution?

The email says:

“The University of Pennsylvania is a dog**** elitist institution full of woke retards. We have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic,” reads the email seen by BleepingComputer.

The email continues:

“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.”

To top it all off, this paragraph is of importance and it is just below the email picture we pictured above. That paragraph says:

The emails were sent from various Penn email addresses, including the Penn Graduate School of Education () and University of Pennsylvania employees.

Pen State did say that the email is false, and that while it may be offensive, it doesn’t reflect their values.

While they’re investigating, they’ve told people if they get the same email, ignore it, but if something else comes up that they need to know as part of the investigation, they should turn it in to their appropriate IT people.

Penn was among several universities that recently received a letter from the Trump administration inviting them to join the “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education,” a program tying preferential funding to the adoption of specific policy reforms.

The University ultimately declined to participate, stating that it had provided feedback to the administration regarding concerns with the compact.

Bleeping asked further questions with no further comment from the university.

To read the full article, please read ‘We got hacked’ emails threaten to leak University of Pennsylvania data is going to be your article.

I just have to say that the article mentions sales force, and if that’s the case, its another agency (term used loosely) that is coming out after the fact.

The JRN is not saying it has to do with salesforce, the article is, and we’re posting that piece of info but this is read in the linked article anyway.