Colorado College student email was down most of today, Sunday, August 9, because a student fell victim to last weekend’s phishing scam.  Emails sent to or from CC student email addresses between 10:36 AM and 4:44 PM today most likely did not reach their intended destination.  If you are a student and you sent email during those six hours, please re-send your message.  If you emailed a student account during that time, please, again, re-send your message.  Unfortunately, it is likely that any off-campus email sent to student accounts during those six hours will never be delivered.  All email services were restored by 11:00 PM.

As a reminder, if there is any chance you clicked on the link in the “re-validate” phishing scam last weekend (or any other scam), please change your password as soon as possible.  Instructions for doing that are available at http://helpdesk.coloradocollege.edu/index.php/tips-and-how-to/miscellaneous/change-your-password/.  The “re-validate” scammers have changed their tactics, and, if they have your password, not only will they send thousands of spam emails from your account, they will forward all of your incoming email to an off-campus address and then delete all email in your Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items.  It is an extremely dangerous scam.  If you have any doubt about whether you answered the scam, please change your password immediately.

Please contact Joseph Sharman, x6301, if you have any questions about the email disruption.

Finally, please remember our pre-scheduled maintenance day tomorrow (Monday) morning, August 10.  Various network services will be down from 4:00 AM until 8:00 AM.  If you would like more details, please click here:
http://listserv1.coloradocollege.edu/digestmessages/jsharman313560.html.