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Thousands cut off from email after EE bungles domain renewal

Lee D Silver badge

Any tech who relies on renewal emails to renew anything - contracts, services, products, licences - is an idiot that shouldn't be in charge of such things.

Are you honestly telling me that they don't collate a list of domains, plus their renewal dates, and check every month? They must have dozens of domains, you can't just rely on someone spotting something coming into a spam-filled postmaster@ mailbox.

And, hell, it's one calendar shared around with the IT department - it doesn't need to have anything privileged and "the guy who did that left/worked for another company" isn't an excuse either.

That's a potentially serious data-revelation flaw... hundreds of user's emails, including complete password reset access for example, potentially going to some random party with £10 and a keen eye for such things. That's inexcusable.

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