The article is almost entirely about reactions to the outage, but it isn't clear what happened. What's the timeline for the freeze on loans and grants? Is the outage from a sudden influx of applicants hoping to get approval before the freeze comes into effect? If it goes into effect immediately, I would expect activity to drop, but could it be prompted a DoS attack by a disgruntled nonrecipient? Did they switch to a new system because of a change in regulations, and have troubles with the new system, like FAFSA?
The article is almost entirely about reactions to the outage, but it isn't clear what happened. What's the timeline for the freeze on loans and grants? Is the outage from a sudden influx of applicants hoping to get approval before the freeze comes into effect? If it goes into effect immediately, I would expect activity to drop, but could it be prompted a DoS attack by a disgruntled nonrecipient? Did they switch to a new system because of a change in regulations, and have troubles with the new system, like FAFSA?