Security Breach at Web Host Leaves Sites at Risk
By JAIKUMAR VIJAYAN
SEPTEMBER 08, 2003

An administrative error at Web hosting provider Interland Inc. may have caused thousands of hosted sites to become infected with malicious code.

Visitors to those infected Interland-hosted sites were in turn vulnerable to having their systems compromised by code that could allow them to be turned into proxy servers, a security expert said last week.