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
“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.
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