Columbia University has confirmed a data breach involving personal information of students and applicants, including their acceptance or rejection status.

Amid the ongoing political row with the Trump administration, Columbia University has suffered a sophisticated cyber attack by a politically motivated hacktivist who copied student data.

A politically motivated hacker breached Columbia University’s data systems last week, stealing student records and causing ...

Personal information about Columbia University students and applicants — including whether they were accepted or rejected by ...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP is investigating a data breach impacting the sensitive personal information of faculty, staff, applicants, students, and ...

A politically motivated cyberattack by a seasoned 'hacktivist' has compromised sensitive data of over two million individuals ...

A breach of Columbia University’s IT systems after repeated attacks by U.S. President Donald Trump is highlighting how ...

Columbia University IT systems experienced an outage affecting systems on our Morningside campus,” the Ivy League school said ...

Columbia University said the hacker stole data from a “limited portion" of its network but that it was still determining the ...

Columbia learned of a data breach on or about June 24, 2025. If you have received a notice concerning the Columbia University data breach and would like to speak with a lawyer, go HERE.

In a notice on its website, Columbia said nobody accessed the publicly viewable file between January 2010 and March 10, 2012.The university said the breach "appears to have been an isolated ...

At press time, Have I Been Pwned, a data-breach archival site, had documented more than 8.5 billion hacked accounts. If you are reading this, then you have probably been pwned at least once. Given ...