[Eril-l] [FORGED] Re: American Chemical Society blocked IPs

[Daniel Peterson]

Could the breach have anything to do with Sci-Hub
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub? Freedom loving students contributing
their proxy login to enable mass downloads. And likely stricter access in
the future for everybody to publisher content.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Bob Pearson <b.pearson at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Yep, into our 3rd day of being blocked. Identified a compromised account
> and reset the password and notified ACS. They have asked for the IP
> addresses used, which I will collate and give them, but they have not
> unblocked us in the meantime.  L
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> Clearly this was a large-scale planned breach. From my first quick look at
> IPs they seem to be Russian. I’m curious whether others found the same, or
> is there a wider geographic spread?
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> Bob Pearson
> Digital Access Librarian
> Digital Services
> The University of Auckland Library
> New Zealand
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> *From:* Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] *On Behalf Of *Kathleen
> Folger
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 8 June 2016 8:37 a.m.
> *To:* Egan,Noelle <nme26 at drexel.edu>
> *Cc:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* [FORGED] Re: [Eril-l] American Chemical Society blocked IPs
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> Noelle,
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> 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.
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>
> 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.
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>
> Thanks, Noelle
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Daniel Peterson
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