• July 2025 •

BYU-Pathway Worldwide Data Breach

Last Updated on July 28, 2025

If you received a notice that your information was compromised, you may be able to start a class action to collect money for the harm you’ve suffered.

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At A Glance

What's Going On?: Attorneys need to hear from people affected by the BYU-Pathway data breach as they investigate whether a class action lawsuit can be filed.
What You Can Do: If you got a letter or email about the data breach, fill out the form on this page to learn more about the investigation and how you can help.
Does This Cost Anything?: It costs nothing to get in touch or to talk to someone about your rights.
What Can I Get?: If filed and successful, a class action lawsuit could provide consumers with money for any harm resulting from the breach.

BYU-Pathway Data Breach: Lawsuit Investigation

Attorneys working with ClassAction.org are looking into whether a class action lawsuit can be filed in light of the BYU-Pathway data breach.

As part of their investigation, they need to hear from individuals who received a notice stating they were impacted.

BYU-Pathway Security Incident: What Happened?

BYU-Pathway Worldwide, a Utah nonprofit organization that offers online educational programs in partnership with BYU-Idaho and Ensign College, recently detected unauthorized network access potentially involving personal data of its students. The organization, which is associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, discovered the breach on June 24, 2025. An intruder reportedly compromised a vendor's account on June 17, 2025, gaining access to systems containing sensitive information of current and former students, including names, Social Security numbers, national ID numbers, account IDs, contact details, gender, marital status, religious affiliation, age, and records of educational courses.

BYU-Pathway has stated that it is unable to identify the unknown third party who accessed the affected systems but that investigators have not detected any further unauthorized activity since June 24, 2025.

Individuals affected by the BYU-Pathway Worldwide data breach are receiving notice of the incident.

What You Can Do After the BYU-Pathway Data Breach

If your information was exposed in the data breach, attorneys want to hear from you. You may be able to start a class action lawsuit to recover compensation for loss of privacy, time spent dealing with the breach, out-of-pocket costs, and more.

A successful case could also force BYU-Pathway to ensure it takes proper steps to protect the information it was entrusted with.

Got a notice about the BYU-Pathway data breach? Fill out the form on this page today.