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Harvard alumni data added to Have I Been Pwned
Details of about 851,000 accounts from a 2025 breach of Alumni Affairs and Development systems, leaked in February, are now searchable.
- Organisation
- Harvard University
- Disclosed
- 5 November 2026
- Affected
- 851,000
- Data
- Emails, phones, addresses, donations
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Harvard alumni data added to Have I Been Pwned”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 5 Nov 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-11-05-harvard-university-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/harvard-university-data-breach-exposed-info-of-851-000-accounts/.
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