Date: 06/06/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: database

yesterday nightish a 3rd party broke into dreamhost's database and got the pw information for 3,500 accounts (including my work account, which is why i was alerted via email by dreamhost). all the 3rd party apparently did was run a script that injected some fluff code to everyone's index files to give their own site better search engine rankings, but they're not quite sure.

3rd party also apparently tried to break into their customer information database but was prevented.

i'd just check your dreamhost sites to make sure nothing is up. better safe than sorry.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1262457.html