DreamHost forces email and FTP password resets in ongoing incident
Original title: DreamHost forces password resets in ongoing "incident"
File Manager access is still down, and users cannot log in until account owners set new credentials.
DreamHost forced password resets for email and FTP/SFTP users after connectivity problems that began with its File Manager on October 23 and spread to other services. The company called the lockout a precaution and says all affected account owners have received recovery instructions, but the incident remains active. Notices also tell owners to check email forwarding rules for unrecognized destinations, which suggests some mailboxes may have been accessed. DreamHost has not answered questions about how many accounts were hit or whether files or messages were exposed.
Unconfirmed: DreamHost has not confirmed exposure, the number of affected accounts, or the cause.
- Problems were first reported on October 23 and later expanded beyond File Manager.
- Account owners must set new credentials and notify mailbox and FTP users themselves.
- Users are told to remove unrecognized email forwarding destinations.
- DreamHost also advises changing the old password anywhere it was reused.
- The company says it serves over 400,000 customers and at least 1.5 million sites.
Impact: Possible unauthorized access to email and FTP accounts
- 1.Set new DreamHost credentials and tell affected mailbox and FTP users.
- 2.Review each mailbox for unrecognized forwarding rules and remove them.
- 3.Change the old DreamHost password on any other service where it was reused.
- Vendors
- DreamHost
- Victims
- DreamHost
- Countries
- United States
From the original article
2 min read at bleepingcomputer.com
DreamHost has forced password resets for email and FTP/SFTP users following an incident that disrupted connections to the File Manager interface. [...]
By Bill Toulas · bleepingcomputer.com
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