14,000 Email Accounts Deleted by Charter
January 25, 2008
When a recent technical error occurred during what was supposed to be a routine maintenance check, telecommunications provider Charter Communications deleted approximately 14,000 customer email accounts.
Charter says that the company performs scans on a routine basis to establish which email accounts have gone idle for in excess of three months. Regrettably, this time, an unidentified […]
Clearswift Domain Outage
January 25, 2008
Email security provider Clearswift recently encountered a domain name catastrophe that caused disruption to several customers email systems.
The problem occurred when the domain where customers’ emails are routed for spam and viruses before being filtered, offline mimesweeper.biz, went. According to reports, the WhoIs record for the domain shows that it expired on December 13, […]