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Web-hosting service and domain name registrar DreamHost sent an email to customers on Friday saying that their FTP passwords may have been accessed by hackers.

The company said it had reset all customer FTP passwords as a precaution and that users would have to create new ones by logging in to their DreamHost web panel. It also advised customers to change their email passwords, though it said email passwords and billing information were not accessed.

DreamHost added on Saturday that handling new password requests was taking some time. "Processing user updates is taking longer than usual due to the sheer number of customers requesting password changes on our system," the company said in a status update posted to its website.

For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Web-hosting service DreamHost warns users of password hack on CNET News.


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Good thing this issue is already resolved. Dreamhost should be more vigilant with their security measures. Hackers nowadays are really intelligent..

servermanagement 26 January, 2012 06:38
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