Vanity: Epik Hosting Service Hacked.

We are contacting you to notify you of an urgent security notice. Despite the extensive security practices we use to protect our platforms and customer information, we have confirmed an unauthorized intrusion into some of our domain-related systems. We have mobilized the full force of multiple cyber security teams to assess the scope of this intrusion. We are taking aggressive action to completely secure and remediate all potentially affected systems, while complying with all applicable laws. As we work to confirm all related details, we are taking an approach toward maximum caution and urging customers to remain alert for any unusual activity they may observe regarding their information used for our services – this may include payment information including credit card numbers, registered names, usernames, emails, and passwords. At this time, we have not confirmed that your card information has been compromised. As a precautionary measure, you may choose to contact any credit card companies that you used to transact with Epik and notify them of a potential data compromise to discuss your options with them directly. Should you observe any unauthorized activity, please document and report it immediately. We are notifying you because we consider your privacy and security our single greatest priority. Our mission to provide legendary service to all customers remains unchanged. We appreciate your support as we work through the full resolution of this situation, and we will continue to provide you with ongoing updates as we learn more. Thank you, Epik Security Team

I opened a proton mail account in order to open a gab account with a made up name. My gab activity amounts to two glamor pics of one of my motorcycles (no plate visible).

The proton mail is a throwaway account with a made up name. I can always open a new proton mail. Never really used gab except as a go to place in case other media got shut down.

They can help themselves to the bike pics and drown in envy I guess.

This is a targeted doxxing of conservative sites and their users, and I see this as a big story that has drifted by under the radar.

Gab, Parler and many others—including my site—are hosted at Epik. I am now going through the process of untangling this mess by canceling payment information and moving to another site.

Users of any of Epik’s sites(I wish I had a list) needs to take heed to the fact that your privacy was just made public.

They became a big target by hosting big conservative sites. I wonder what hosting/billing system they use? Probably WHCMS which is the most popular. Looks like they provide it as part of reseller web hosting; https://www.epik.com/WHMCS/

If they also use it, that’s probably what got hacked. It handles customer billing and also automatically sets up a cpanel account for customers. I always found it to be a little buggy. There would always be one feature that would bring the white screen of death. They’d do an update that would fix it but then some other feature would do the same.

It’s either that or the database itself was hacked.

My websites have so little traffic that I’m not a target. If I hosted with Epik, I’d have been caught up with the big targeting of the big sites just as you were.

I swapped from veerotech(crap support) to a2hosting. Super fast Litespeed server and cheap when you pay for three years at once which I did.

Don’t know if you’ve chosen a new host yet but here’s a good comparison; https://b2evolution.net/web-hosting/cheap-plans/comparison-matrix

If you use WordPress, I presume you know about the migration plugins. Duplicator used to be my favorite but I like All-In-One Migration now. With any other CMS, I simply download the SQL db and site files and reupload to the new server. That and change the Domain Name Servers to aim at the new web hosting server, ns1.a2hosting.com etc (and then wait 12-24 hours)

Most web hosts will do the complete cpanel migration for you for free. Freepmail me if you need any advice. I’ve been building websites since the 90s.

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