A hacker proclaiming allegiance to the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq and Syria has infiltrated the internal network of one of China's top universities to display images of masked and mounted terrorists, reports said on Monday (Jan 18).
The terrorist hacker also reprogrammed pages of Tsinghua University's in-house course portal to display Arabic verses from Islamic scripture accompanied by music, a student newspaper at the Beijing institution reported.
Instead of displaying links to class resources and departmental information, the site showed a photo of four hooded fighters on horseback riding beneath the flag of ISIS, according to screenshots.
The cyber-intruder identified himself as an "ISIS Hacker".
"God is great, I am unafraid of death, death is my ultimate goal," reports translated an Arabic message as reading.
The student newspaper report was widely reposted by state-run media, but the original has since been deleted.
The department responsible for maintenance of Tsinghua University's website declined to confirm the incident to AFP.
Tsinghua, in Beijing, quickly shut down the server after the breach on Sunday evening was discovered, the reports said.
Mainland China operates some of the tightest online controls in the world, with content deemed to be sensitive deleted and access to some Western websites blocked; straitstimes repored.
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