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Hackers steal server log-ins from hosting vendor
Yesterday, September 20, 2007, 5:35:20 PM
Server hosting vendor Layered Technologies Inc. admitted this week that hackers broke into its support database and made off with as many as 6,000 client records, including log-in information that could give criminals access to clients' servers.

The Plano, Texas, company, which operates a pair of data centers that hold the physical servers it manages for clients, said the break-in happened sometime Monday night. "The Layered Technologies support database was a target of malicious activity on the evening of 9/17/2007 that may have involved the illegal downloading of information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and server log-in details for [5,000] to 6,000 of our clients," the firm's CEO, Todd Abrams, wrote on the company blog Tuesday.

According to other information posted on the blog, the database was reached through a vulnerability in a Web-based application used by Layered's help desk. After hacking the Web application, the criminals next accessed the support database. "This allowed them to then view tickets and their contents," said someone identified as Jeremy using the moniker of "LTADMIN."

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