Softaculous hacked

Softaculous is an automatic installer that allows automatic installation of a with just one click. Softaculous has 343+ popular scripts and also allows you to automatically upgrade your web application very easily.

So you can very easily install the web applications WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, MyBB Forum, SMF, Mambo and many others.

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Softaculous announced a security breach in their infrastructure. The company states:

“We have detected unauthorized access to some of our mirror servers. We took immediate steps to secure, isolate and protect our infrastructure of our customers but also to collaborate with experts.”

The company also reports that none of its customers' servers are affected by this incident. Products of Softaculous, Virtualizor and Webuzo v3 servers are regularly checked by third parties and security experts with each which circulates. Softaculous immediately started an additional audit of all the software available to its customers.

Loginizer, Pagelayer, wpcentral, Backuply, and Popularfx are not affected.

All servers that hosted customer names, addresses, license information, and hashed customer account passwords are not affected. Also no credit card information is stored.

Of course the company recommends that its customers change passwords or authentication details that have been shared with the support team while the security team and experts continue to assess the nature of the problem.

If you are concerned, you can contact the company at @softaculous.com

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