It seems that in the week before Christmas, Kean University’s site was attacked and defaced on three occasions. Kathy Lloyd and Charles Kim reported:
The Kean University website was hacked three times Sunday and into early Monday morning by what the college and its police department believe to be an Algerian group calling itself “Red Hell.”
The university sent out a letter around 10 p.m. Sunday notifying students about the hack of the site, which remained offline until 2:15 a.m. Monday morning.
“Kean University’s externally hosted website was hacked twice in the past 24 hours by a group calling itself Red Hell, claiming to operate out of Algeria,” the letter said. “They posted a despicable message. The site was disabled as soon as we were informed of the breach. A new firewall was enabled and the site became operational again at 3 p.m. today.”
Read more on TapInto.net. There appears to be a typo in one part of their report: where it says “one,” it should say “none:”
Kean said in the letter that it informed the appropriate law-enforcement authorities as soon as it learned that the site was compromised, and that one (sic) of Kean’s mission-critical operations such as financial and record-management systems, KeanWise or the University’s e-mail system were impacted.
The Union News Daily had more details, including the statement that no mission-critical systems were impacted.