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hacked sites

Today I received an e-mail from Dreamhost that they had suffered an incident in which over 3,500 FTP passwords were accessed by a third party. And of those only 20% of the sites run off of these accounts had been compromised. And that even then all the hacker had done was replace the index pages with other pages. It turns out that all of my sites were affected. Incredibly annoying!!! Makes me feel vulnerable. I've been able to restore 95% of them. Since these sites are primarily for some author friends and one not-for-profit and they don't pay for hosting, at least real hosting, I guess we were lucky.

hacked sites

Today I received an e-mail from Dreamhost that they had suffered an incident in which over 3,500 FTP passwords were accessed by a third party. And of those only 20% of the sites run off of these accounts had been compromised. And that even then all the hacker had done was replace the index pages with other pages. It turns out that all of my sites were affected. Incredibly annoying!!! Makes me feel vulnerable. I've been able to restore 95% of them. Since these sites are primarily for some author friends and one not-for-profit and they don't pay for hosting, at least real hosting, I guess we were lucky.