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Sounds like something Google and that University need to work out. I am curious about what happened that they needed to shutdown G Suite.

My understanding is Google is a bit less likely to go full ban and just lock you out with no recourse with G Suite than regular services.

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What might have happened is that an admin account of the university has been hacked, and someone is abusing it for spam.

Or a large number of accounts were created with placeholder credentials which were compromised in mass -- for example, passwords set to dummy values like "changeme", or to predictable values like the student's last name.

Sounds plausible.

It's a good thing to shut down early this type of spam, else other providers might start blocking *.tw domains and it will take longer for them to get unblocked.

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