Fasthosts, "the UK's number 1 web host" suffers major data breach

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Fasthosts, "the UK's number 1 web host" suffers major data breach

10-22-2007, 10:09 AM,

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Fasthosts, "the UK's number 1 web host" suffers major data breach

Quote:Fasthosts, "the UK's number 1 web host", has fired off emergency emails telling customers to change all their passwords after police were called in to investigate a major data breach...

"As a precautionary measure, Fasthosts has asked its customers to update their passwords. This includes their control panel, email, FTP, and database passwords, all of which can be changed via the customer control panel. Fasthosts has now implemented customer password encryption to further protect customer data."...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/18/...stigation/

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