The hacks have exposed the personal information of students, faculty, alumni and donors.

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A series of recent data breaches are highlighting why wealthy, high-profile higher education institutions are particularly vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

Last week, hackers cracked a database managed by Princeton University’s advancement office containing information about alumni, donors, some faculty, students and parents. Two weeks earlier, hackers stole similar records from the University of Pennsylvania. Those attacks followed others earlier this year at Columbia University—which exposed the data of 870,000 people , i

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