[LINK] Richard re corporate security

[Frank O'Connor]

The mail servers are back online now ... after being out for about 24 hours.
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On 10/12/2011, at 4:37 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au quoted Richard Chirgwin's article on El reg:

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> Update: A reader has advised The Register that Telstra's BigPond POP and 
> SMTP servers are currently offline. Although not on the affected RightNow 
> servers, since customer logins may have been compromised, Telstra has 
> probably taken services down as a precaution.
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> The carrier's status page states that "some online services remain 
> unavailable as a precaution".
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> A Telstra spokesperson has stated on Twtter that as many as 60,000 
> customers "will need password resets to reduce risk from privacy breach" 
> (sic). This suggests the carrier has assessed the logs of its customer 
> self-service portal and has an estimate of how many accounts may have 
> been compromised. ®
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