Easily.co.uk claims to be one of the biggest UK-based web-hosting companies, with over 100,000 client worldwide. It prides itself on having “100% UK based support” with all “customer service staff trained and based in-house.” UK web hosting firm Easily.co.uk has suffered a targeted attack which exposed an unspecified number of customer domain names, it revealed in a letter to customers. The company was caught out last week after customers started receiving emails written poorly in English that warned their domains may have been breached. Easily.co.uk was asked if the warnings were a phishing attack, as the company had not mentioned any attack, however various domain lists of the company had been hacked, and it had, unfortunately, decided not to say anything. In an email sent by EasyDNS to its customers, they said: “We are aware of reports from our clients about possible breaches at www.easyhosting.co.uk which we take very seriously.
Easily.co.uk claims to be one of the biggest UK-based web-hosting companies, with over 100,000 client worldwide. It prides itself on having “100% UK based support” with all “customer service staff trained and based in-house.” The company was caught out last week after customers started receiving emails written poorly in English that warned their domains may have been breached. Easily.co.uk was asked if the warnings were a phishing attack, as the company had not mentioned any attack, however various domain lists of the company had been hacked, and it had, unfortunately, decided not to say anything. In an email sent by EasyDNS to its customers, they said: “We are aware of reports from our clients about possible breaches at www.easyhosting.co.uk which we take very seriously.