INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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There will be queues at the university throughout the week, as 38,000
students seek a new email password
Some 38,000 students in Germany have been asked to queue in person for a new email
password, after their university was hit by a cyber-attack.The students at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen have been asked to provide
proof of identity in person because of "legal requirements".The attack, on 8 December, initially took the entire university offline.It told
students it was investigating the incident with the help of Germany's Research Centre for Cyber Security."All employees and students have
to collect their new personal password personally," the university said in a statement.Students have been asked to bring an ID card to the
university's gym at an allotted time determined by their birth date.According to the published schedule, it will take a full five days to
process all students.Meanwhile, the university has made 1,200 USB sticks available to staff so computers can be scanned for viruses."They
are talking about two waves of virus-checking, so they clearly are quite unsure of what has happened," said Prof Alan Woodward, at the
