The forums of the hosting business Domainfactory were shut down by hackers who claimed to have compromised its infrastructure through messages they posted.
The corporation requested clients to reset their passwords after informing them of the data leak.
Along with outside experts, the corporation is looking into the attack and has reported it to the data protection authorities.
After noticing the peculiar statements the hackers had posted on the boards, the German media source Heise made the hack public.
Source: https://securityaffairs.com/74306/data-breach/domainfactory-hacked.html
"id": "DOM1633311223",
"linkid": "domainfactory-gmbh",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "06/2018",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"