Emails from any Radiográfica Costarricense
S. A. (Racsa) account to hotmail did not get
through to their destination this week, as
Hotmail.com blocked all emails from a @racsa.co.cr
email.
Hotmail said the block was in response to a
report that hackers used the racsa email
service to send at least 8.000 spam emails.
Hotmail says the hack was due to a lack of
security by Racsa that allowed hackers to
use the service for their gain.
Racsa has about 75.000 email customers and
expects to have Hotmail lift the block as
soon as possible.
Miguel Montero Corredera, director of
network systems at Racsa, sent an email to
all customers of the problem, explaining the
need for customers to have a strong passwor
and change it often.
The email, in many words, blamed customers
for the security breach, allowing hackers to
take control of accounts due to weark
passwords, causing the block by Hotmail.
Montero said that in this case Hotmail
decided to block the Racsa.co.cr domain and
not the IP, which would have affectet many
more internet email users.
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