An unau­tho­rized account was cre­ated on the Ferris com­puter sys­tem in an appar­ent attempt to hack the school’s servers.

The account was noticed and deleted by uni­ver­sity staff the same day it was created, Monday, March 22.

There is no appar­ent rea­son to think stu­dent infor­ma­tion was affected, accord­ing to Leah Nixon, assis­tant direc­tor of news ser­vices at Ferris. Letters have been mailed to indi­vid­u­als with infor­ma­tion on the server alert­ing them to the situation.

“Only the stu­dents who were on the server and may have been affected by this were noti­fied,” said Nixon. “There was no university-wide announcement.”

Nixon said the FBI was called as a stan­dard pro­ce­dure in mat­ters of com­puter net­works being hacked.

The affected server has been removed from the network.

The inves­ti­ga­tion is still under­way. There are no sus­pects at this time.