DreamHost, company which hosts millions of domains, is notifying customers about Data Breach and FTP password disclosure. It is also requesting users to change the account passwords

One of the biggest web hosting companies, DreamHost has confirmed the data breach. It has also notified all customers that hackers have obtained access to some of DreamHost account, so users must change their FTP/shell access password to protect their account.

“Our security systems detected the potential breach this morning and we immediately took the defensive precaution of expiring and resetting all FTP/shell access passwords for all DreamHost customers and their users,” company wrote in the letter sent to customers.

Dreamhost provide 3 type of passwords to their customers, a web panel password, used for logging into the administration panel, email passwords, and FTP/shell access passwords. Company also said that only FTP/shell passwords appear to have been compromised but users must change all the passwords for security reasons.

To change the password, please log into the web panel and go to Manage Users. Click edit next to the FTP/shell user on the right and you can change your password there.