Hosting Provider InMotion Hacked, Thousands of Sites Affected

[djbaxter]

Hosting Provider InMotion Hacked, Thousands of Sites Affected
Threatpost
September 28, 2011

InMotion, a large hosting provider based in California, was compromised in recent days and the attackers were able to replace the index files of thousands of sites, defacing them and in some cases making it difficult for site owners to recover and reload their sites.

The attack occurred on Sunday and the company posted a notice on its site about the incident, but many users posting on the company's forums complained that they were never notified about the attack by InMotion. Some of them said that they only learned that their sites had been defaced when a customer or other third party informed them about it.

In a message posted on the company's support forum, InMotion's president said that the company had identified the vector that the attacker used to compromise its systems and determined that the only goal was to deface customer sites.

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[Linda Buquet]

Yikes, that's not good!

 

[MichaelRoberts]

Ouch. I have a few customers who still use them, but we just switched all the sites to Hostgator. Terrible to hear.

 

[MostHeather]

Oofaa. That sounds like a bad situation for everyone involved..

 

[HostingArmor]

hmmm... someone should write a program to check your site everyday to see if it is vulnerable to attack....