Hackers have struck elite US universities in recent weeks, pilfering sensitive data from donors and making off with students’ information in a string of digital heists that only add stress to schools already besieged with political pressure.
Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania have each disclosed breaches within the past three weeks, months after a politically motivated attacker burrowed deep into networks at New York City’s Columbia University. The identity of the intruders in most of the recent incidents remains a mystery. However, the hackers typically duped school employees in order to access databases of personal ...