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Hosting company describes security scare aimed at Bitcoin accounts |
March 27, 2014
On Sunday morning, Nate Daiger, one of the owners of a small Los Angeles-based hosting company Chunk Host, received an odd email on his phone.The email came from SendGrid, a company used by Chunk Host to send its email. SendGrid specializes in ensuring an organization’s legitimate emails get through and aren’t mistakenly picked off by spam filters.The email was a password reset notification. That was odd, since Daiger wasn’t trying to reset his password. In fact, he barely ever logged into his SendGrid account.But it was the first clue that something was awry at his company, which sells inexpensive virtual private hosting on fast hardware.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2114140/hosting-company-describes-security-scare-aimed-at-bitcoin-accounts.html#tk.rss_all
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