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Hostinger hacked - Up to 14 million Hostinger users might be impacted by a security breach

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On Friday, 23 August 2019, it became known that the Internet hoster Hostinger is resetting all customer passwords. There was a hack, and infrastructure servers from this hoster were compromised.

In a blog post, the company said a hacker gained access to an internal server, where he found an authorization token for an internal API. He later used it to make "API calls affecting information about Clients."

The company said the hacker made API calls against a database storing the personal information of about 14 million customers, such as Hostinger usernames, customers' IP addresses, first and last names, and contact information such as phone numbers, emails, and home addresses.

The database also stored information about user passwords in a hashed format.

As a result, the web hosting provider decided to forcibly reset passwords for all impacted accounts as it discovered affected customers.

The company said the breached server and API have been taken down.

Read the Full Story here: https://www.hostinger.com/blog/security-incident-what-you-need-to-know/
 

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