Mediatemple

27th November, 2009 - Posted by admin -

I don’t know if this is old news or what, but I just read about them having a serious hacking issue, going on for weeks now:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=648979

Quote:

I asked how in the world did hackers magically guess so many FTP/SSH passwords. At first I was told that these were old passwords (I wasn’t explained the significance of why old passwords should be vulnerable). Then I was told that the login data was stored in plain text in a database that had been compromised. My jaw dropped.

Quote from http://michaeltorbert.com/blog/media-temple-hacked/

It would seem like not even the big, non-"budget hosts" of the world can do very silly mistakes, both security and PR wise.

http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog…rity-advisory/

Posted on: November 27, 2009

Filed under: News