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EIRCOM.NET EMAIL users are being encouraged to change their passwords after an attempted security breach.
The service said that it had to restrict access to its mails yesterday following a detected intrusion.
However, eircom.net email users have now had their access fully restored.
Eircom said:
At this time, there is no evidence to suggest any impact to other eircom systems or services including customer data. Our investigations will continue into the cause of the intrusion.
It is “strongly recommend[ing]” that customers change their email account passwords today and on a regular basis.
We are very sorry that this has caused a significant inconvenience to users of our email service.
On Tuesday, eircom detected “an intrusion” on the perimeter of its email service and in accordance with security procedures and industry best practice, took immediate steps to lock down its email service and eliminate any threat to its 350,000 eircom.net email users.
As a precaution, it has also alerted relevant bodies, including the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
Staff worked overnight to implement a number of system modifications.
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Awful service, do people still use this spam sponge domain?
Eircom.net user? Don’t change your password, change your email provider!!
Its not the worse in fairness
Its brutal. Always was.
Better tell the 3 people that use it
You’d be surprised the number of people that still use it. I have a website that requires registration. Users are almost exclusively from Ireland. I’d say at least 10% are eircom.net email addresses.
Oceanfree.net however…
Oceanfree.net. The old classic. Ah bless.
In fairness, if you are hacked on a gmail account you’ve no one to ring.
True, and also true for Hotmail/Outlook…no phone support there either…
Gmail has two step verification. I assume you got a mobile phone. Not the hacker
Gmail has two step verification. I assume you got a mobile phone. Not the hacker
Just don’t use Eircom email.
Any business advertising an eircom.net email address is basically ruling out ever getting any business from Irish geeks including myself.
Ridiculous way to think. However it only puts you at a loss, no one else.
It’s a public display of ignorance. It makes you question the other aspects of their profession.
It’s certainly bizarre to use @eircom.net as your email address if you’ve bought your own domain like http://www.companyname.ie. I see this all the time.
@Andrew – Pat the plumber probably doesn’t have the technical ability to add his own @domainname address, and to him an email address is an email address regardless of the the tld. But yeah, it is surprising sometimes to see pretty big, or what I assume to be pretty big, companies – usually coach operators, or hauliers – using the likes of eircom.net
To be honest a lot of people would have set up an Eircom email account and used it ever since when they first purchased broadband with Eircom and would not be familiar with the internet/how to set up another email account….and its not the worst email service I have ever seen (certainly not the best however)…
Eircom.net/dinosaurofthepast/obsolete
Consider one aware now!!
Eircom.net users are probably still using altavista.net or excite for their search results too and are also probably using net scape for internet browsing.
You can divert your eircom.net mail to Gmail and get no spam and get all your mail scanned and get lovely ads tailored especially for you. If you want to annoy someone with a Gmail account mail them with links to personal membrane itching or something.
It takes about 15 seconds to turn off the Promotions tab
That would make sense though cpm. Can’t bate the paddy Irishman.
Remeber a few years ago some, young fella hacked eircoms network.. I wonder is he still working for them?
If Eircom.net is the worse email server which is the best
Gmail
Gmail since 2005 baby!
Got efiber promising up to 70meg download speed but only getting 7meg. Anyone else have this problem? ???? Feeling cheated !! 100 meters away houses getting 45meg. Eircom say its because its the way the lines are….
Got unusual amount to spam this morning, I wonder is the Internet banking from home really safe with all the spyware?
Buy antivirus. Secure web browsing. Stay off redtube.
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