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WNMU regents' livestream hacked with porn, racist comments
Western New Mexico University in Silver City, in June.
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SILVER CITY — Western New Mexico University regents briefly recessed their open meeting Thursday morning after the livestreamed broadcast was invaded by hackers.
Early in the meeting's agenda, the Zoom display, which was projected on a screen over the regents' heads as they met in the J. Cloyd Miller Library on campus, began to display an image of a man in a sexually explicit pose with a Confederate battle flag as the background with a Nazi swastika and Ku Klux Klan cross also in view. Over the image, a caption read in capital letters: "Hacked by Nuenze."
The channel's comment section was also briefly spammed with over 100 racist messages, in capital letters, calling for violence against persons of color.
The caption and description of the image match those in reports of a hack earlier this week that derailed a meeting of Mississippi’s Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council, as reported by States Newsroom.
The regents recessed for a few minutes while university staff secured the Zoom channel, and the meeting moved on with little comment about the incident.
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Over the past three months, the university has been recovering from a crippling cyberattack that compromised its website, email and digital networks. The university has offered few details publicly about the extent of the damage and recovery efforts, but internal communications reported by Searchlight New Mexico suggest it was a ransomware attack.
