FBI joins investigation into hack of Long Island Jewish school’s website with Nazi images and slurs

The website of the North Shore Hebrew Academy High School’s was overtaken with antisemitic images, offensive slurs and songs in a cyber attack that occurred on 14th December.

The homepage presented a large swastika with a video clip of marching Nazi SS guards, and another section read “North Shore Hebrew Death Camp”. One page included details of a “field trip” to Auschwitz and listed the application deadline as “January 1945”. The description stated that students would be made to “walk into an SS office and declare themselves as Jews”.

Personal information, including the addresses and credit card details, of students and staff at the Long Island school were also harvested in the suspected cyber-breach.

The hacking of the website is believed to have lasted several hours before the webpage was taken down by administrators.

The Headmaster of the school has reassured the community that the Nassau County Police are currently investigating the incident, and the FBI has now joined the investigation.

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