Online proctoring service ProctorTrack has disabled access to its service after its parent company was breached.
With many schools and colleges conducting distance learning, including testing, online tutoring services are increasingly being used to prevent students from cheating.
ProctorTrack is one such solution from Verificient that is used by many universities, including Rutgers, University of Western Ontario, Ohio University, Illinois State University, Purdue University, and MIT.
Verificient and ProctorTrack were breached
Starting yesterday, students began receiving emails sent by the hacker from Verificient's support account. The email contained racist references and falsely stated that the company and ProctorTrack were out of business.
To add further damage, hackers "trolled" Verificient by defacing the company to display a video called "Never Gonna Give You Up" for Rick Astley.
Shortly thereafter, Verificient disabled its ProctorTrack service and apologized for the messages sent by the hacker.
Since receiving the emails and being notified of the ProctorTrack breach, students have expressed concerns about school .
The source code was leaked last month
In addition to this week's hack, source code for several Verificient apps was leaked last week on Twitter and Telegram.
The source code was leaked by Tillie Kottman, who also leaked source code for dozens of companies in July and Intel source code in August. It is not known whether these two breaches are related.
