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NYU website hacked to leak admissions data
A hacker defaced NYU's website and linked to admissions data on about a million applicants.
- Organisation
- New York University
- Disclosed
- 26 March 2025
- Affected
- 1,000,000 (claimed by attacker, unconfirmed)
- Data
- Applicant data
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM-Alliance ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “NYU website hacked to leak admissions data”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 26 Mar 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-03-26-new-york-university-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM-Alliance, https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/biggest-cyber-attacks-ransomware-attacks-data-breaches-of-march-2025.
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