Author: JT Smith
PCWorld: “Password problems at EarthLink knocked as many as 1.5 million users off the Internet Monday,
preventing them from accessing the Web and their e-mail for much of the day.
preventing them from accessing the Web and their e-mail for much of the day.
The outage impacted EarthLink customers with MindSpring-labeled accounts (EarthLink
bought MindSpring in 1999). Starting at about 11:30 a.m. EST, customers who tried to go online
ran into an impassable “authentication problem.”
