Cpanel System Hacked, User Data Accessed

Most popular website administrative firm cPanel (Control Panel) have warned its customers about the security breached of its system.

At weekend, firm discovered that its one of the customers database system have been breached, potentially exposing its customers information.  Customers’ names, contact details, and encrypted (and salted) passwords were publicly aired due to a series of unfortunate events.

There is good news that cpanel stores users credentials on other system and that remain same.

Firm have warned its customers via emails-

“I am writing to let you know that one of our user databases may have been breached, although we successfully interrupted the breach, it is still possible that user contact information may have been susceptible.”

Cpanel mentioned that  the breached data contain names, contact information and passwords which are encrypted.

Firm is moving forward to the better security as this was not that serious breached but it can’t be neglect also.