Spammers plunder Plusnet e-mail
Published May 22nd, 2007
Customers of UK net provider Plusnet have been told to change the password for their account following a break-in by malicious hackers.
In the attack, the hackers gained control of a Plusnet’s mail server and stole a list of e-mail addresses.
Spammers used the list to deluge Plusnet customers with junk mail. Some customers may also have been exposed to a computer virus.
Plusnet shut down its webmail system while it tried to remedy the problem.
Some customers of Plusnet started getting a lot more junk e-mail in mid-May following the successful attack early in the month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6676819.stm
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