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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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• Re:unreferenced pronoun Re:unreferenced pronoun (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 20 2019, @03:51AM (1 child)

  by c0lo (156) on Friday December 20 2019, @03:51AM (#934523) Journal

  Who does "it" refer to above?

  Intention was along the line: "unless the contract between Google and the Uni has strict privacy provision for the users benefiting from the contracted service - including the no-tracking"
  (sorta: "it" == "contract")

  For a smart guy this post is very confusing.

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• Re:unreferenced pronoun (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @05:08AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @05:08AM (#934558)

  Thank you for the clarification. I guess in Europe some entities give privacy a more than lip service.

  Sorry to hear about your heatwave, here it's 10F/-12C so heatstroke didn't occur to me.

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