UConn: University Website Compromised

The University of Connecticut’s website was compromised Sunday night, prompting an unknown number of visitors to download a malicious program posing as Adobe Flash Player, according to the university.

Technical staff at the university resolved the issue, but visitors to the website may continue to experience the issue for some time, UConn deputy spokesman Tom Breen said in an emailed statement to the university’s newspaper, The Daily Campus.

Breen said it isn’t known how long the problem will persist. However, he added that the university didn’t expect the breach to impact Monday’s start of winter intersession classes, according to the newspaper.

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“Final resolution of the issue depends on the timeouts of various caches, from provider servers all the way down to individual computers,” Breen told the newspaper. “As these continue to refresh, the impact will steadily diminish before ending entirely.”

Breen said the website’s Internet protocols that associate the URL “uconn.edu” with the website’s server and content apparently were compromised around 7:15 p.m. Sunday.

The full Daily Campus story can be found here.