Hacked U. of New South Wales Facebook Page Shares Images of Porn with Prospective Students
Education // Social Media
The renowned Australian university, on the day of its annual open house, began posting graphic photos of porn star Mia Khalifa along with pictures of Mexican guns and instructions on how to French kiss on its Facebook page.
After being locked out of the page, the school’s system administrators made several attempts to contact Facebook. They eventually “regained access to the site through other means” and removed the racy content, UNSW officials said.
Some social media users speculated that the university may be behind the posts:
Willem de Wit Emma Perry said: 'Really enjoying UNSW new marketing ploy.'
‘Either the IT guy went on clicking virus links, or he just got fired and decided to revenge,' wrote Albert Hung Vincent Loo.
'Go home, UNSW! You're drunk,' said Hasanul Rizqa.
One bogus post showed a woman’s bare cleavage exposed in an American customs officer uniform, with the message: ‘When girls get bored at work.’
In a statement, a school official said the university was alerted to the security breach early on Sept. 5.
“The University is concerned about the impact this has had on the UNSW community and will be working to determine the source of the breach,” officials said.
Prior to this hundreds of bewildered students had voiced their confusion on social media, with some of the posts amassing over 800 Facebook likes.
Adam Hongru Liu wrote: 'If you can't even secure a freaking Facebook account, how can you be called the leading engineering institute in au?! Even a 10 year-old boy knows that'.