Hi Louise
I wondered if you were able to give a little more information as to how we can find more information about the breach. We need to know how to see if we have been affected by this. It is very difficult to find this by following the links you give as this only takes us to the home page of the sites.
Thanks you
Melanie Keady
E Resources Development Manager
University of Derby.
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Subject: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Bootleg password websites
A number of websites have recently appeared which give login and password details for access to the e-resources of a number of University libraries. These sites include http://www.journalpassword.com, http://www.passfans.com, and http://www.bbs.techyou.org. Often logins given allow access to an institution's proxy server and any resources authenticated through that route.
The Publishers Association and ALPSP have already been made aware of this, and many of you may have seen the recent postings on other discussion lists. For universities, if your institution is affected then please ensure the login details posted are changed immediately. It might also be advisable to remind staff and students that passwords are not to be shared with unauthorised users under any circumstances.
Thanks to Kirsty Luff for alerting the list owners to journalpassword.com (which now seems to be unavailable), and to Jim O'Donnell at Georgetown for posting more information to lib-license-l at Yale.
Thanks
Louise
Louise Cole
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Nightingale Centre, Kingston Hill Campus
Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey
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