DreamHost has been outed by a security researcher who discovered around 814 million customer records had been leaked under the web hosting firm’s watch.
A database without password protection that contained the records was found by Security Researcher and co-founder of Security Discovery Jeremiah Fowler and the Website Planet research team.
Fowler claimed, in a report, that the data that was leaked included admin and user information for DreamHost’s DreamPress WordPress hosting accounts including WordPress login location URL, first and last names, email addresses, usernames, roles, host IP addresses and timestamps.
TechRadar Pro reached out to Dreamhost for a comment and was told that 21 websites were affected, and the only party outside of DreamHost to see this data was a security…
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