Ireland-based telecommunications company Eircom was forced to shut down its email service on Wednesday after detecting unauthorized access to the system.
Yesterday, we detected an intrusion on the perimeter of our email service and in accordance with our security procedures and industry best practice, we took immediate steps to lock down our email service and eliminate any threat to our 350,000 eircom.net email users, the company noted in an alert published on the Eircom c…