Kabarak University has recovered its Facebook page account, which had been hacked by cybercriminals.
A university contact confirmed the information but did not say whether the hacker was tracked down or if action was taken against them. The head of the ICT team also declined to comment on the matter.
A spot check revealed that all of the hacker’s posts had been removed, and the first post of the day was an advertisement video indicating that the May intake was still ongoing.
Furthermore, the institution updated its profile and cover photos to reflect the university’s logo and banner, respectively.
The verified page had 46,000 followers and 36,000 likes by the time the institution’s Facebook account was hacked.
Upon regaining the account, the page’s likes had climbed to 47,000 and while followers nearly doubled to 72,000.
University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Henry Kiplagat earlier affirmed to the media that the institution had reached out to Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to assist in retrieving the account.
He added that the cyber-crime case was forwarded to the authorities for action to be taken against the hackers.
