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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Registry WG and Operations IG<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As some of you might have noticed, the Euro-VO Registry and some ESA Archives and VO services had been unavailable for some weeks. ESA suffered some important cybersecurity attacks and although these services were not directly affected,
they had been disconnected as precautionary measures until we took various strengthening security actions with enhanced security controls in place to improve their robustness and resilience.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m glad to report now that the Euro-VO Registry servers are back on-line, as well as all the ESA Archives and VO services.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Christophe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Christophe ARVISET <a href="mailto:Christophe.Arviset@esa.int">Christophe.Arviset@esa.int</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Head of the Data Science and Archives Division<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Science Operations Department, Directorate of Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">European Space Agency (ESA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Camino Bajo del Castillo s/n<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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