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Hacker defaces NYU website, exposing admissions data on 1M students

7 pointsby achristmascarlabout 2 months ago

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gnabgibabout 2 months ago
Discussion (22 points, 3 days ago, 28 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43447308">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43447308</a>
like_any_otherabout 2 months ago
&gt; The hacker claimed to be part of a group called “Computer Niggy Exploitation”<p>&#x27;claimed&#x27; is a link [1] to an image of the defaced NYU website. But its description in the article is puzzling, as the most interesting thing in that image is not the name of the hacker group, but the average admitted SAT score, broken down by race.<p>The NY Post included that picture in their article on this incident [2], but, bizarrely, cropped it so that the labels on the bar chart were omitted.<p>Related, the composition of the Ivy League looks like this, from public data only: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;ivy_league" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;ivy_league</a><p>Edit: Thanks to user gnabgib for linking to a prior discussion, which includes the archive of the hacked website itself: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20250322133330&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyu.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20250322133330&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyu.e...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fwe-got-hacked-v0-y6gclp14uaqe1.png%3Fwidth%3D1179%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd1d4d81456fdaaa38253d9a2e1f57bb189feda0a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;03&#x2F;22&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;nyus-website-seemingly-hacked-and-replaced-by-apparent-test-scores-racial-epithet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nypost.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;03&#x2F;22&#x2F;us-news&#x2F;nyus-website-seemingly...</a>