Sharon Otterman reports:
A potential cyberattack continued for a second day to cause widespread computer system outages at Columbia University on Wednesday as the school’s engineers worked to investigate the problem and restore service.
The attack, which began in the early morning hours on Tuesday, initially shut down all systems on the school’s Morningside campus that required a university ID, including Zoom, internal emails and coursework, according to a Columbia official. By Wednesday, many of those services had been restored, but there were still others, including the main course catalog and library catalogs, that remained unavailable.
An image of a smiling President Trump popped up on some screens across campus on Tuesday, including on public monitors in the lobby of Alfred J. Lerner Hall, a student center, photographs reviewed by The New York Times showed.
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