Carnegie Mellon Student Sues Over August 2023 Data Hack

By Gina Kim ( April 3, 2025, 4:07 PM EDT) -- A Carnegie Mellon University student launched a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday alleging that despite charging students a $470 technology fee presumably meant for maintaining network data security, the school negligently failed to stop an August 2023 hacking event that compromised students' personally identifiable information....

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