40,000 students forced to queue for new passwords after 'severe' cyber attack

guest · Dec 18, 2019

40,000 students forced to queue for new passwords after 'severe' cyber attack
Legal quirk means German university students must receive new passwords in person following a password reset
December 18, 2019
https://www.itpro.co.uk/security/cy...to-queue-for-new-passwords-after-severe-cyber

Tens of thousands of university students in Germany have been forced to queue up to receive new passwords following a mass-password reset spurned by a recent security incident.

The University of Giessen’s (JLU) 38,000 students are being issued with new passwords in person due to a legal oddity that means they can’t be notified through email, as is conventionally done after a credential reset.
Because the institution is part of the German National Research and Education Network (DFN), the students may only receive their new passwords in person as part of a legal requirement to be members of the body, JLU has confirmed.

The password reset was deemed necessary after a suspected cyber attack almost ten days ago knocked JLU’s services offline. The incident was described as ‘severe’ in an open letter penned by the president of JLU Professor Dr Joybrato Mukherjee and required that the university shut down its servers.
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Lange Schlangen für 38.000 neue E-Mail-Passwörter

Die Uni Gießen hat sämtliche Passwörter von Studenten und Mitarbeitern zurücksetzen müssen. Die Hintergründe des mutmaßlichen Hackerangriffs sind weiter unklar.

Nach ersten Einschätzungen habe man es offenbar "mit einer bislang unbekannten Variante einer Schadsoftware zu tun", hieß es. Wegen des Verdachts auf einen Cyber-Angriff wurde Strafanzeige gestellt. Die privaten Endgeräte der Studenten sollen nicht betroffen sein.
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