{"id":208977,"date":"2026-02-02T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/penn-says-investigation-into-october-2025-cybersecurity-breach-is-complete\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:10:09","slug":"penn-says-investigation-into-october-2025-cybersecurity-breach-is-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/penn-says-investigation-into-october-2025-cybersecurity-breach-is-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn says investigation into October 2025 cybersecurity breach is \u2018complete\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/02\/faq-cybersecurity-breach-incident-october-webpage-data\">Penn says investigation into October 2025 cybersecurity breach is \u2018complete\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/02\/faq-cybersecurity-breach-incident-october-webpage-data\">https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/02\/faq-cybersecurity-breach-incident-october-webpage-data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 00:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedp.com\">www.thedp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Penn resolved its investigation into an October 2025 cybersecurity breach \u2014 which reportedly compromised the data of over 1.2 million University students, alumni, and donors \u2014 last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a University spokesperson, Penn completed a \u201ccomprehensive review\u201d of the Oct. 31 incident and notified affected individuals. The University&#8217;s webpage about the data breach \u2014 which previously offered community guidance \u2014 now displays a 404 error.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenn conducted a comprehensive review of the downloaded files to determine whose information may have been involved. That review is now complete,\u201d the University spokesperson wrote. \u201cPenn sent notifications to the limited number of individuals whose personal information was impacted as required by applicable notification laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese notifications provided resources for individuals who have any questions or concerns,\u201d the spokesperson added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Penn\u2019s webpage previously claimed that the amount of data obtained by the hackers was \u201cmischaracterized\u201d by reports at the time. While the webpage advised community members to take steps to protect their personal information, it emphasized the lack of evidence that the leaked data had been used for fraudulent purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Since the breach, 18 Penn graduates filed class-action lawsuits against the University. The individual filings were later consolidated by a district judge.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints alleged that Penn acted negligently in its cybersecurity measures and argued the breach was more damaging than the University recognized. Over the past few weeks, 7 of the original filings have been withdrawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A University spokesperson declined to comment on the &#8220;ongoing litigation&#8221; in response to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The breach first became apparent after a series of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/02\/faq-cybersecurity-breach-incident-october-webpage-data\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn says investigation into October 2025 cybersecurity breach is \u2018complete\u2019 https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/02\/faq-cybersecurity-breach-incident-october-webpage-data Publish Date: 2026-02-02 00:02:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/snworksceo.imgix.net\/dpn\/6c803d2a-6692-4ad8-948f-50304541d342.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=800&h=600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-208977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208979,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208977\/revisions\/208979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}