getty/google thousands have been left with no internet following the cyber attack top stories direct to your inbox subscribe invalid email sign up to receive our rundown of the day'sdirect to your inbox when you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. our privacy notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. you can unsubscribe at any time. the cyber attack on publicly-funded network janet has crashed networks at dozens if universities across the uk. the hack has been linked to the terrorist group also known as daesh. since monday morning, a continued distributed denial of service ddos attack has flooded the shared server with so much traffic the system has been unable to cope, leaving thousands of students unable to get online. manchester, edinburgh, sussex, glasgow and royal holloway are just some of the universities to have their servers disabled by the malicious hack. network janet covers the.ac.uk and.gov.uk email addresses and the eduroam wifi service which are used by most colleges and universities in the country. it comes as tens of thousands of students are studying for their end of term exams, and find themselves unable to complete assignments. getty students have faced hours of disruption because of the hack speaking to student newspaper the tab, the university of manchester it department said: the janet network is experiencing issues again this morning affecting a number of educational institutions including us. we'll keep you updated. engineers from jisc are implementing blocks to prevent connections from the source of the attack, while taking great care to ensure that legitimate network traffic is still accessible. while nobody has yet taken responsibility for the debilitating hack, some students suspect that isis may be responsible. google royal holloway has also been targeted in the cyber attack the timing is dreadful - it makes you think that it was the work of a terrorist organisation ucl student university college london ucl faced internet disruption yesterday, which left some without vital access to wifi for hours. a ucl student, who asked not to be named, said: the timing is dreadful - it makes you think that it was the work of a terrorist organisation. is have the technology to pull off such a heinous act of cyber-crime, so maybe it was them. getty students have claimed isis could be behind the cyber attack second year emma, from edinburgh, said: for it to break in the middle of revision was poor form. it's unnecessary levels of stress in this already stressful time. the library help desk were freaked out too. manchester third year student tom added: we heard an announcement in ali g just now saying the wifi was down and everyone's got really p***** off. i guess if it was an attack there's not much they can do but i've got deadlines creeping up so it's pretty inconvenient that i can't get online. glasgow third year claire said: it's just really annoying because exam season is the worst time for this to happen. there is already a tonne of pressure on us without having a lack of access to internet. isis fighters fri, march 25, 2016 iraq and syrian jihadists, including the paris and brussels attacks suspects. play slideshow ph 1 of 47 belgian national salah abdeslam who masterminded the paris attacks
students left without internet after islamic state 'hack' major computer network