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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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 20 2019, @05:46AM (1 child)
Our university supposedly has a contract with Google that supposedly restricts how much they can mine the students' data. No idea on how reliable that contract is, since I suppose they just wanted to get rid of their own email people. It seems that all universities have dropped email service in exchange for Google and Micro$oft providing it for them. Yes, many students were already using gmail before.
As for not using the university accounts, that won't go very far when one needs to pull an article or get an ebook.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 20 2019, @05:57AM
Germany.
You know? Europe? Those guys that went Nazi over privacy.
More important: the guys who are just waiting to fleece Google and the rest some more billions in fines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0