Comments on: Dreamhost account hacked http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com/2007/06/dreamhost-account-hacked/ Life & Research Notes Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:38:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brian http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com/2007/06/dreamhost-account-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-8895 Brian Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:28:48 +0000 http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com/2007/06/05/dreamhost-account-hacked/#comment-8895 I just got that email myself. Yet another embarassment by Dreamhost. At any rate, this could have major repercussions among the small bloggers in the world who use their hosting. At any rate, when this first happened last week, it crashed the CMS that managed some of my sites, so I picked it up fairly quickly. At the same time, I was puzzled how someone got my password. I emailed DH, and they assured me it was my software, and in no way their fault. Ah well, live and learn. I wrote about it more here: http://www.caydel.com/dreamhost-leaks-3500-ftp-passwords/ I just got that email myself. Yet another embarassment by Dreamhost. At any rate, this could have major repercussions among the small bloggers in the world who use their hosting.

At any rate, when this first happened last week, it crashed the CMS that managed some of my sites, so I picked it up fairly quickly. At the same time, I was puzzled how someone got my password. I emailed DH, and they assured me it was my software, and in no way their fault.

Ah well, live and learn.
I wrote about it more here: http://www.caydel.com/dreamhost-leaks-3500-ftp-passwords/

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