[Eril-l] American Chemical Society blocked IPs

[Lei Jin]

Same happened at Ryerson University - our proxy server has been restored
since.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Weijing Yuan <weijing.yuan at utoronto.ca>
wrote:

> We had several notifications from ACS as well. Our IT staff investigated
> and got back to ACS and subsequently our proxy access was restored.
>
>
>
> Weijing Yuan
>
> Head, Licensing and eResource Acquisitions  | Collection Development
> Department | University of Toronto Libraries
>
> 130 St. George Street   |  Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5  |  Canada
>
> Tel (416)978-0084   |  Email: weijing.yuan at utoronto.ca
>
>
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> *From:* Eril-l [eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] on behalf of Dana Walker
> [dmwalker at uga.edu]
> *Sent:* June-07-16 4:31 PM
> *To:* Egan,Noelle; eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Eril-l] American Chemical Society blocked IPs
>
> The University of Georgia also experienced this on Sunday.  We too are
> still waiting for our ez-proxy IP to be in-blocked.
>
>
> Dana Walker
> Head, Acquisitions and Serials Services
> UGA Libraries
> 706-542-0596
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> *From:* Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> on behalf of Egan,Noelle
> <nme26 at drexel.edu>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 7, 2016 4:19:28 PM
> *To:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* [Eril-l] American Chemical Society blocked IPs
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> 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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>
> *Noelle Egan **eResources & Acquisitions Librarian*
>
> Drexel University Libraries
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Lei Jin
Electronic Resources Librarian,
Ryerson University Library
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Toronto, ON   M5B 2K3
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