eircom, Ireland's largest ISP, has confirmed that there was an outage on their domain name servers (DNS) last night after users complained that they were experiencing difficulties accessing web sites. This is leading to speculation that the company's infrastructure has been "hacked".

So far, eircom have failed to issue a statement as to the extent of the outage, or if indeed it was hacked. A statement is due from them shortly.

Users, over the past couple of nights, have been complaining that they had been experiencing serious DNS slowdowns and odd occurances, such as bein redirected to incorrect sites when visiting popular sites such as rte.ie, google.com and facebook.com.

An Eircom spokesman has confirmed that the company has had issues with its servers, and that a statement would be forthcoming.

Official announcement (acknowledgement) on eircom support site: http://support.eircom.net/ (a cached image of page is available here)