BYU-Pathway Worldwide Data Breach
Last Updated on November 11, 2025
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.
- 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.
BYU-Pathway Data Breach Notice
Published: July 28, 2025
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