Hosting provider, Namecheap, said on Monday that hackers compromised some of its users' accounts, likely using a recently disclosed list of 1.2 billion usernames and passwords compiled by Russian hackers.
A coalition of digital rights groups and Internet companies has launched a campaign, called Reset the Net, to encourage Web users and Internet companies to take measures to use surveillance-resistant privacy tools.
Namecheap said Thursday it struggled to recover from a new type of distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against its DNS (domain name system) servers that knocked 300 websites offline.