Glitch Leads to Campus Gmail Vulnerability

When Information Technology Services (ITS) switched Wesleyan’s e-mail to Gmail in January of this year, students were able to log into other students’ e-mails for about a month by typing in a username and leaving the password field blank. This glitch has been but one of a multitude of issues facing ITS recently: issues that some employees say could be avoided through more thorough program testing and greater efforts to alert the campus community to technical problems.

According to Ganesan Ravishanker, the associate vice president for ITS, the student Helpdesk received a call on Feb. 26 from a student who claimed it was possible to log into other students’ e-mails without a password.
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