And there you have it, the reason why I wrote my own billing system instead of relying on WHMCS.
Hopefully nothing important got taken or lost.
It's a bit concerning that WHMCS was hacked
Sorry, sometimes I have a tendency to get too caught up in what I am doing then to read. Thanks for pointing this outIf you read what happened, there was no hacking involved. So no, I don't share the same level of concern at all.
This is concerning about the level of security HostGater has in the fraudprevention, and account security department. I was working for a website hosting and designing firm that focused on Real Estate websites, and the issue I had with them was that they had no policies in place to prevent social engineering. This is one of the first few methods practiced by hackers today. Being of which, is also one of the least protected.The WHMCS server was hacked via a social engineering method at their webhost HostGator, apparently the hacker gained access to the server by requesting a email address change to the hosting account and then took control of the server.
There was no risk to existing whmcs installation as a result of this issue.