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Many web sites at Dreamhost have been hacked, they say: approximately 3,500 FTP passwords have been compromised.

We’re still working to determine how this occurred, but it appears that a 3rd party found a way to obtain the password information associated with approximately 3,500 separate FTP accounts and has used that information to append data to the index files of customer sites using automated scripts (primarily for search engine optimization purposes).