Comcast Hacking — When Will Customers See a Fix?
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After hackers took control of Comcast’s homepage and redirected it to other servers — customers are still seeing issues, almost a day later.
Hackers took over and defaced Comcast Corp.’s Web portal for several hours overnight, leaving a cryptic message on the site that the company’s 14.1 million subscribers use to access e-mail, news and technical support.
Link: Time
As a Comcast customer, I still cannot connect to mail.comcast.net to get my mail from Gmail or Thunderbird. The only way I can get my email is to log into their webmail interface. I didn’t even know of the problem until I saw the issue on FlyingHamster. Then I checked my gmail account and noticed that it stopped fetching mail from Comcast at 3:43am.
Hopefully they get things up and running soon. I am trying to talk to @comcastcares on Twitter about the issue.
Justin Capasso
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luke
May 29th, 2008
at 6:02pm
i still use comcast to this day and i find that beyond all the bs and trouble comcast has it still provides me decent internet for a decent price thats all i can ask for
mhz
May 29th, 2008
at 6:17pm
I wonder if they captured the credentials of all those users who tried to login, either in person or via email clients…
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May 30th, 2008
at 12:07am
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