HostGator: cPanel Security Hole Exploited in Mass Hack

[ozzmo]

HostGator says hackers compromised its servers using a previously unknown security hole in cPanel, the control panel software that is widely used by hosting providers. "I can tell you with all accuracy that this is definitely due to a cPanel exploit that provides root access and all cPanel servers are affected," said HostGator system administrator Tim Greer. "This issue affects all versions of cPanel, from what I can tell, from years ago to the current releases, including Stable, Release, Current and Edge."

Source: http://news.netcraft.com/

Was anyone from wickedfire hit by this attack?

 

[L146705]

yeah all my sites were down, they kept saying refresh the cache and it was a cpanel update problem which it wasn't. They finally realised the error and did well to fix it.

I think they could have dealt with the problem a lot better.

 

[hitzatak]

Thank god I survived!

 

[L146705]

yeah it was a hole in the cpanel security, hostgator were just unlucky to be targeted.

 

[GeorgeB]

Just updated mine.

Thanks for the info.

 

[wfhnow]

the whole time i was wondering what the f#%k was going on...that explains it all...

 

[joe]

hmm, I just registered a new reseller package with HostGator the day of the attack. At least they're honest about attacks unlike Site5.

 

[claudek]

Sad thing is, some of my sites will be exploited by this bug cause no one is replying at one of the hosts I use - a week already darnnit. Am gonna be shifting everything to dotable.com and sleep a bit nicer.

 

[Bryan Le]

I think I survived...