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University of Bridgeport: Most of school's global cyber outage issues were quickly resolved

Director of Connecticut's Emergency Management Bill Turner stressed that the outage was not deliberate.

News 12 Staff

Jul 20, 2024, 9:47 PM

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The University of Bridgeport was one of many institutions that Friday's global cyber outage impacted.

The school bookstore could not open on Friday, but school officials said they resolved most of the problems quickly.

Director of Connecticut's Emergency Management Bill Turner stressed that the outage was not deliberate.

"We can confidently say this was not a cyberattack, and whether it was malicious or not, we are pretty confident that was not the case," he said.

"What we can learn from that is how to institute technologies to make sure that there is a default, that the system doesn't just shut down and come to a screeching halt," said Sen. Herron K. Gaston.

He added that "the digital world needs to grow to the point where it's no longer dependent on just a small handful of platforms."

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