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University of Pennsylvania SSO Breach Exposes 1.2 Million Records

ID: cb463418-be74-5cbb-8f43-e2a78b184d0a

STIX ID: report--cb463418-be74-5cbb-8f43-e2a78b184d0a

Feed Name: ThreatCluster

Threat Score
82/100

Date Published: 2026-07-29

Date Updated: 2026-08-04

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In 2025 the University of Pennsylvania experienced a large-scale breach after attackers compromised a PennKey single sign-on (SSO) account, enabling access to internal systems including VPN, Salesforce, Qlik, SAP, and SharePoint and affecting about 1.2 million individuals; the report highlights SSO-specific risks and urges adoption of NIST-recommended strong password policies, consistent MFA (including FIDO2 keys), and tighter protection of identity provider admin accounts and permissions.

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