Dream Host - Incidents

Incidents

• In July, 2006, two power outages in the building housing DreamHost's datacenter caused significant disruption to services offered by DreamHost, Media Temple and MySpace.
• A year later, approximately 700 websites and 3,500 FTP accounts hosted on DreamHost's servers were compromised. In response to the incident, the company made some changes to improve security.
• The following January, DreamHost accidentally billed some customers for an extra year's worth of services, which they initially reported as $7.5 million in extra charges. The company later stated the final total was $2.1 million.
• On May 20, 2010, dreamhost.com was down for six hours after a DDos attack against them and the website DrawMuhammadDay.com they hosted. The websites of other customers stayed up during the attack.
• On January 20, 2012, one of DreamHost's database servers was illegally accessed and some customers' FTP and shell access passwords may have been compromised. DreamHost forced a password reset and emailed all customers about setting up new passwords.