InMotion web hosting hacked - thousands of websites defaced
A well known web hosting company InMotion recently faced major hacking attack where thousands of websites hosted on their servers were compromised, hacked and defaced. It looked like the goal of the hacker was only to mass deface all the sites located on InMotion’s servers.
InMotion is California, USA based web hosting providers which is quite famous and a lot of bloggers host their blogs and business websites with them. Also, InMotion is quite famous also with small to medium based businesses.
President of InMotion Todd Robinson also confirmed the same in his post made on InMotion Forums. He stated that this mass hacking and defacing attack was executed on Sunday [September 25th]. According to Todd, the attack did not execute anything more then replacing the index.php/html files of each and every website on the servers. Also, the attacker gained access by using a system exploit to change the system password which allowed him access to index files. The same exploit has now been blocked by InMotion. Todd has also suggested all of their clients to change the cPanel as well as FTP passwords.
Todd made it clear that no billing and personal information of client has been compromised. However, the facts seem to differ. A lot of their clients reported that their anti viruses raised issues when they visited their own defaced website. So it is possible that the hacker tried to inject some kind of malware into their browsers.
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