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University Issues Passwords by Hand to 38K Students and Staff After Cyber Attack

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Re: University Issues Passwords by Hand to 38K Students and Staff After Cyber Attack

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Re: University Issues Passwords by Hand to 38K Students and Staff After Cyber Attack

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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21824957 , which submitted the original source. The site guidelines include: " Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Although this post did not reveal that it was taken from another source, other publications have credited ZDNet with being the…

Hi, I found this on our Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/svblxyz/status/1206948966442708992. The link on the tweet goes to the university website and it's from here that I got all the information for the story. I also found this link on the uni's website that gave me additional information - https://www.uni-giessen.de/nachrichten.html (I translated both pages). I hope this helps.