Primary School Website In Newry Hacked With Porn Content

It happened over the weekend.

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A primary school in County Down has had its website hacked with pornographic content.

The website for St Ronan's Primary in Newry was replaced with a porn site over the weekend.

The school tweeted to say they have been hacked and are trying to have the site blocked.

thank you if you know of any ways the site can be blocked or taken down please let me know...the site was hosted by a 3rd party on our behalf...

— St. Ronan's P.S (@stronansps) March 3, 2019

The Belfast Telegraph say police confirmed the domain name had been purchased legitimately. Therefore, the new owner was entitled to publish their own material on the site.

A spokeswoman told the paper:

"Police received a report of an incident in relation to a website in the name of a school in the Newry area".

"On further police investigation it was established that the lease for this website had expired and it was legitimately purchased by another user".

"This website is in no way related to the school."