NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds [Unofficial]University of Phoenix study suggests colleges are losing the fight against ChatGPT
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/06/university-phoenix-study-chatgpt-colleges/
BillBack in the early days of spam, #UniversityofPhoenix was one of the worst senders of spam I was seeing. I will always hate them.
Years later, I ended up with the worst boss I ever had. Mail order MBA from them. Thankfully, they were un-bossed from me and replaced with a great one.
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉University of Phoenix confirms massive data breach via Oracle EBS zero-day (CVE-2025-61882), exposing names, DOBs, SSNs, and bank details of 3.5M people. Attackers hit Aug 13-22, 2025; notifications started Dec 22 with free credit monitoring. Stay vigilant! 🔒💻⚠️ https://cyberinsider.com/breach-at-university-of-phoenix-exposed-data-of-3-5-million-people/ #DataBreach #CyberSecurity #UniversityOfPhoenix
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RF WaveUniversity of Phoenix has revealed they were victim of a data breach
TImeline:
- Breach was detected Nov 21, 2025
- Breach was disclosed Dec 2, 2025
Impact:
- Personal and financial info of students, staff, and suppliers were stolen
Attacker: Clop ransomware group is believed to be responsible
Response:
- Breach notifications to be sent to affected individuals
gtbarryUniversity of Phoenix discloses data breach after Oracle hack
The University of Phoenix (UoPX) has joined a growing list of U.S. universities breached in a Clop data theft campaign targeting vulnerable Oracle E-Business Suite instances in August 2025.
#UniversityOfPhoenix #UoPX #Oracle #Clop #databreach #education #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked
University of Phoenix warns AI is burning out workers instead of helping them
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/10/university-of-phoenix-ai-productivity-paradox/
CybersecKyleThe countdown to graduation has begun…according to my university home page.
Only 8 classes left!
Patrick LeavyWe know about the #Trump campaign using #CambridgeAnalytica to swing the 2016 election, and Russia getting involved, but gun associations? That's new to me.
https://www.propublica.org/article/guns-lobbying-cambridge-analytica-nssf-privacy-elections
3rd party vested interests providing citizen private data to dodgy firms to swing elections is a pretty dark use of #microtargeting. On a par (nearly) with what the #UniversityOfPhoenix was caught doing 🤮
#surveillancecapitalism #RTB #personalisedads #personalizedads #privacy
Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain
Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.
Kyle 🕵️♂️💻Today starts a new class in my journey to getting my Bachelors in IT.
Infrastructure Administration CYB/205
- should be an interesting one and I'm looking forward to it.
LilMikeSFLast week the California’s Attorney General announced it had reached a $4.5m dollar settlement with for-profit diploma mill #UniversityofPhoenix for predatorily scamming military veterans on the #GIBill. It was a #whistleblower case, over a decade in the making ... and #investigativejournalism that eventually led the largest civil penalty to the #FTC of any for-profit #college in American history.
Here is some of the original 2015 #PBSNewsHour #TheReveal journalism that led to the case
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/profit-universities-taking-advantage-veterans #HigherEd #PBS
Are for-profit universities taking advantage of veterans?
Since 2009, the G.I. Bill has paid up to $21,000 a year of college tuition for those who served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Much of that money, though, goes to for-profit schools, which award degrees some employers don't recognize. Aaron Glantz of the Center for Investigative Reporting and "Reveal" reports.