November 3, 2014

State Department of Education Website Appears to Have Been Hacked

Christopher Ayers

The Indiana State Department of Education website appeared to have been hacked Monday morning.

WISH-TV reported that visitors to the agency’s website early this morning were being redirected to page with a message claiming to be from the Nigeria Cyber Army. That message had been removed as of 7 this morning, but the DOE website is still down. 

The State Department of Education issued this statement this morning:

"This morning, the Indiana Department of Education’s website was hacked due to an apparent Drupal vulnerability.  However, there is no sign that any data hosted on the website was compromised.  The Department’s Information Technology staff has taken the website down temporarily while this issue is addressed.  It is currently anticipated that the website will be down at least through the rest of the day."

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