Some Awesome Engineer Hacked, Got Classes Cancelled

This is why we need to pay attention to Engineers more. Today, someone managed to hack into an administrator's email account. They sent a perfectly legit-sounding message canceling all classes in Moore before noon due to an "electrical breakdown."

Honestly, it was probably only a matter of time before an entire school of technologically-savvy people managed to do something as simple as hack into an email address, right?

It was only after a followup email from the real administrator did anyone realize something was wrong. Wrong, and awesome. Read the emails after the jump!

-----Original Message----- From: "\"S. Sonya Gwak\" <"<sgwak@seas.upenn.edu> Sender: seas-sr-bounces@lists.seas.upenn.edu Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:21:37 To: <seas-ugrad@seas.upenn.edu>; <seas-grad@seas.upenn.edu> Reply-To: sgwak@seas.upenn.edu Subject: [Seas-sr] [Seas-fr] Important : Classes in Moore cancelled due to electrical failure

Dear SEAS Community,

There has been an electrical breakdown in Moore Building due to the bursting of an A.C. Duct. This has caused an electrical failure in most of the classrooms and labs.

The facilities team are working on it and the systems will be restored soon. However all classes in Moore Building before noon have been cancelled. Classes in Towne and Skirkanich Buildings shall continue as usual.

Further information about make-up classes and exams shall be provided by the faculty for the class.

Classes after noon shall resume normally. We will keep you updated with any further developments. -- S. Sonya Gwak, Ph.D. Associate Director for Student Affairs and Advising School of Engineering and Applied Science Office of Academic Programs 111 Towne Building T: 215-573-8369 F: 215-573-5577

-----Original Message----- From: "S. Sonya Gwak" <sgwak@seas.upenn.edu> Sender: seas-sr-bounces@lists.seas.upenn.edu Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:20:23 To: <seas-ugrad@seas.upenn.edu>; <seas-grad@seas.upenn.edu> Subject: [Seas-sr] Message from Sonya Gwak

Dear all,

it seems that my email has been hacked. CETS is aware and I am getting it fixed.

I apologized for any inconvenience this may have caused.

S. Sonya Gwak, Ph.D. Associate Director for Student Affairs and Graduate Admissions University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science Office of Academic Programs 220 S. 33rd Street, 111 Towne Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Email: sgwak@seas.upenn.edu Tel: 215-898-7246 Fax: 215-573-5577