High level of hacking among hosting company?

[temi]

Not to put all my eggs in the proverbial one basket, I have my sites with various hosting companies.
Over the last few days, I have received emails with contents along the line of the example below, I wonder if hosting companies are getting hacked more at more than usual rate lately?

We've recently done an audit of company name web hosting services and have found that many
of our customers have a weak password.

In an attempt to secure your hosting further we have changed all of our customers
passwords to a randomly generated password that meets our
guidelines.
You will need to fill in the email address, cpanel user name, and the original cpanel
password to obtain your new password. If you are not sure
of the original cpanel password, or if you do not feel comfortable filling out the form,
please contact us through live chat.

[xhan]

I've had experience of a company saying i'd been hacked to get money out of me - I wasn't having any of it - I hae things set up so I can leave immediatly! I've had such bad experiences with hosts in thr past.

[rhyswynne]

I got a similar e-mail with one company. Did you recieve more than one or just one Temi? As I recieved one from my hosting, want to see if it was the same hosts....

I changed it, but now I can't remember my password! So I'll have to change it again! I'm terrible like this!

[temi]

Was the host in question hostgator? I got the one I parly posted above from Hostgator, but I also receive something similar from Servage and yet a 3rd company, all in different parts of the world:
Hostgator US
Servage Germany
3rd copamy U

[Gorkfu]

Originally Posted by temi

Was the host in question hostgator? I got the one I parly posted above from Hostgator, but I also receive something similar from Servage and yet a 3rd company, all in different parts of the world:
Hostgator US
Servage Germany
3rd copamy U

I think maybe the reason your seeing the same or similar e-mail from other hosts is possibly, the other companies are resellers to Hostgator? There are thousands of resellers of HostGator. You'd pretty much be just buying host gator service and not knowing that you are.

[temi]

Originally Posted by Gorkfu

I think maybe the reason your seeing the same or similar e-mail from other hosts is possibly, the other companies are resellers to Hostgator? There are thousands of resellers of HostGator. You'd pretty much be just buying host gator service and not knowing that you are.

No, this other companies are not, I know servage is certainly not a hostgator reseller

[gfxguru]

well there are many reliable hosting company who got hacking protection and well maintained servers. Our server is protected.