[Eril-l] American Chemical Society blocked IPs

[Kathleen Folger]

Noelle,

Thanks so much for sharing this information. We got a report from ACS of a
breach via our proxy server and investigated as we do normally. We
identified a compromised user account and reported back to ACS but they
have not been responding to our requests to have the block removed.  Now I
know why.

-Kathleen

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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Egan,Noelle <nme26 at drexel.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
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> Here at Drexel we had a hack of 4 users account on Sunday, and the
> accounts were used to download massive numbers of articles from ACS.  ACS
> subsequently blocked our access through our EZProxy IP address.
>
>
>
> I just got off the phone with Richard at ACS about this, who let me know
> that many universities had user accounts hacked in the same way, and this
> breach was affecting several other publishers as well.   I was surprised I
> hadn’t seen any traffic about the issue on this listserv – has anyone else
> been blocked by ACS or another publisher in the last few days for excessive
> downloading?
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>
> FYI – ACS says they are not unblocking any IP addresses until they have
> the issue resolved, at which time they’ll email all their affected
> customers about reinstated access.
>
>
>
> Thanks, Noelle
>
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