Sunday, January 25th, 2026
Incident Discovery Time: 12:25am (corrected) on 01/25/2026
Time of Resolution: 02:50pm on 01/25/2026
Services Impacted: Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Description of Impact
Clients were unable to reset their passwords, unlock their accounts or make changes to their personal information because the link, bu.edu/mybuaccount, was not loading. Similarly, the Service Desk was unable to approve password resets or look up account information for clients who request assistance.
Incident Description and Resolution
IS&T teams have resolved the incident.
Additional Information
The cause of this incident was determined to be a change made this morning.
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Previous Update
Incident Discovery Time: 08:55am on 01/25/2026
Services Impacted: Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Description of Impact
Description of Impact Clients are unable to reset their passwords, unlock their accounts or make changes to their personal information because the link, bu.edu/mybuaccount, is not loading. Similarly, the Service Desk is unable to approve password resets or look up account information for clients who request assistance.
Current Status
IS&T teams are working on this issue and estimate that the problem will be resolved in the next couple of hours.
Next Update: 03:30pm
Previous Update
Incident Discovery Time: 08:55am on 01/25/2026
Services Impacted: Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Description of Impact
Clients are unable to reset their passwords, unlock their accounts or make changes to their personal information because the link, bu.edu/mybuaccount, is not loading. Similarly, the Service Desk is unable to approve password resets or look up account information for clients who request assistance.
Current Status
IS&T teams are working on this issue and estimate that it will be resolved between 2 3pm today.
Next Update: 02:00pm
Previous Update
Incident Discovery Time: 08:55am on 01/25/2026
Services Impacted: Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Description of Impact
Clients are unable to reset their passwords, unlock their accounts or make changes to their personal information because the link, bu.edu/mybuaccount, is not loading. Similarly, the Service Desk is unable to approve password resets or look up account information for clients who request assistance.
Current Status
IS&T teams are waiting for a previously scheduled long data process to complete before they can fix this issue, so the mybuaccount page might be out of service for a few hours.
Next Update: 12:00pm