University of Pennsylvania data breach
In October 2025, University of Pennsylvania suffered a data breach that exposed charitable donations, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, income levels, job titles, names, physical addresses, religions, salutations, and spouses names. The breach affected 623,750 accounts. If you had an account there, change your password there, never reuse it anywhere else, and check your email address with the free scan.
- Breach date
- October 30, 2025
- Added to this tracker
- February 16, 2026
- Accounts affected
- 623,750
- Company domain
- upenn.edu
- Data exposed
- Charitable donations, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, income levels, job titles, names, physical addresses, religions, salutations, and spouses names
Was my information in the University of Pennsylvania breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with University of Pennsylvania before October 2025, your information may have been included. The free Ghost Delete scan checks your email address against known data breaches, so run it to see whether your address shows up.
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What data was exposed?
In the University of Pennsylvania breach, the exposed data was charitable donations, dates of birth, email addresses, genders, income levels, job titles, names, physical addresses, religions, salutations, and spouses names.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at University of Pennsylvania right away, and anywhere else you reused it.
- Never reuse passwords: give every account a unique password.
- Watch for phishing emails and messages that use the exposed data to look convincing, and go to the site directly instead of clicking links.
- Run the free breach scan to check your email address against other breaches.
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