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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

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Students were forced to change their Boston University account passwords after educational site Chegg was breached. ILLUSTRATION SOFIA KOYAMA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Following flood of spam emails, more than 1,000 student accounts temporarily disabled

By Samantha Kizner October 10, 2019
Over 1,000 Boston University students were forced to change their account passwords after BU servers were flooded with spam emails from student accounts in late September, university officials said. The spam is believed to be a result of a 2018 breach of the educational site Chegg.
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