The International Studies Program website — isp.ucsd.edu — was hacked on Nov. 11 and has been inaccessible from off campus ever since.

Currently, visitors can access the site from anywhere on campus, as the site is protected by the UCSD network.

“A compromised system is blocked at the campus edge to secure the privacy of visitors [like] students, staff, faculty,” university spokesperson Christine Clark said in an e-mail. “The compromise is unlikely to spread to other machines inside the UCSD network.”

Clark said the university is addressing the issue and the site will be fixed as soon as possible, with no financial repercussions.

The details of how the system was hacked will not be revealed due to security issues, Clark said.

“That information is not public to protect the functionality of the site,” Clark said. “There was no financial or student information hacked or viruses passed.”

International Studies Program Director Julie Vitale said the program staff sent out course descriptions for this academic year’s winter and spring quarters shortly after the website’s crash.

“At this time, it is only viewable on campus,” Vitale said. “Hopefully it has not been too detrimental.”

Course descriptions were sent by e-mail to all international studies majors on Nov. 12.

“I’ve go on it a lot during the quarter, but I haven’t been on [over] break,” Muir College sophomore and international studies major Madeline Krieg said.

According to Vitale, the program cannot determine the number of students who may have been deterred from signing up for the program’s classes.

“It’s hard to say, just because we have no way of statistically telling,” Vitale said.

Students with questions about classes who cannot access the website should e-mail the international studies program at ERC Admin Bldg., Suite 100 for academic advising.