Well today, I am happy to say that I am not with dreamhost when it comes to hosting my websites. It sounds like some third party was able to access over 3,500 FTP accounts from dreamhost’s user base. Using the accounts they acquired, they supposedly compromised about 20% of those sites by modifying and/or replacing web pages. Especially if you run an online business, something like this could completely cripple both your business and reputation. So, if you are interested in setting up a website (especially for e-commerce), make sure you do your homework first to find a reputable and safe hosting provider.

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.[more]

Tags: Hackers, Websites