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Uni Forces 38,000 Students, Staff to Queue With ID for Password Reset After 'Cyber Atttack'

posted by Fnord666 on Friday December 20 2019, @12:21AM   

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Tens of thousands of students and staff at a university in Germany had to queue up this week after a malware infection on its campus network forced the college to reset everyone's account passwords.

The Justus Liebig University Gießen (JLU) says that a "suspected cyber attack" this month has caused it to shut down most of its online services for several days, and reset their logins.

In order to get new credentials, the school is requiring students to appear in person, meaning some 38,000 people have to show up with identification to get their passwords changed. Here's what that looks like...

"For security reasons, the university computing center has issued new passwords for all 38,000 JLU email accounts," a translation of the uni's alert reads. "All employees and students have to collect their new personal password personally."

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• When it rains, it pours. When it rains, it pours. (Score: 3, Funny) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday December 20 2019, @01:14AM (1 child)

  by Coward, Anonymous (7017) on Friday December 20 2019, @01:14AM (#934461) Journal

  Especially at the Gießen password office.

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• Re:When it rains, it pours. (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @04:35AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @04:35AM (#934543)

  I think he is going for a pun here, as "gießen" means "to pour".

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