Web hosting providers hacked

If you are currently a customer of Startlogic, Ipower, Dot5, Godaddy, Hostgator or Fasthosts you may have recently receivied an email indicating that your FTP, main account and/or email passwords were changed for security purposes. The reason behind this change? Each of these companies had a breach in their security and a trojan virus installed itself on their servers.

Insiders tell us that these companies are all currently working together to find out where the attack originated, how it was conducted and what can be done to prosecute the hacker(s). From what we have been told, the attack appears to be a Russian coded trojan virus which was delivered from an IP address originating in China. They have been able to locate nine IP addresses associated with this infection.

It is important to keep a few things in mind here. It is the account holders responsibility to maintain SECURE PASSWORDS; mary123, test123 and john123 are NOT SECURE. Using uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters is what IT professionals would recommend (if possible that is) and using non-dictionary words is always best. Maintain back up copies of all your files because it's not your hosting providers responsibility.