DreamHost Warns of Attack, Forces Customer Password Changes
Attackers were able to compromise a database at DreamHost, a large hosting provider, late last week and the company is forcing all of its customers to change their passwords for their FTP and shell accounts as a precautionary measure.
DreamHost did not provide many details about what happened in the incident, only saying that they “detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases.” The company, which is based in Brea, Calif., said that it doesn’t have any evidence that the customer password database itself was accessed and the passwords were compromised, it is pushing through a process to change all of the passwords. The password change process was completed over the weekend.
