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More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Continue reading Don’t Let Your Domain Name Become a “Sitting Duck”
Millions of customers of web hosting company Hostinger have received emails bearing the bad news of a data breach. Continue reading Hostinger upgrades password security after 14m accounts breached
Hostinger said that unauthorized access to an internal API server exposed hashed passwords of 14 million customers. Continue reading Hostinger Data Breach: 14M Customer Passwords, Personal Data at Risk
Internet domain registrar Hostinger International says it has reset customer passwords following a data breach in which an outsider accessed a database containing information about 14 million users. Founded in 2004, Hostinger is a web hosting service that markets itself as a digital backbone for small and medium websites. The site on Sunday disclosed a security incident, saying in a blog post that “an unauthorized third party has gained access to our internal system API, one of which had access to hashed passwords and other non-financial data about our customers.” The breached API database includes client usernames, emails, hashed passwords, first names and IP addresses about 14 million Hostinger users. The exact number of affected users of the 14 million in that database was not immediately clear. The hosting provider said it uses a cryptographic hash function to encrypt all client password by using a one-way mathematical process to convert […]
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Web hosting provider and Internet domain registrar Hostinger reset all Hostinger Client passwords following a security incident. On 23 August, Hostinger learned from an informational alert that an unauthorized party had gained access to one of its serv… Continue reading Hostinger Resets Client Passwords Following Security Incident
Web hosting firm Hostinger has reset the passwords of all of its customers after it discovered hackers had breached its systems and accessed a database containing millions of records.
Continue reading Hostinger resets passwords following security breach