Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2023
Phishing-host ranking scrutiny
The Cybercrime Information Center placed Hostinger among the top five phishing hosts under its Phishing Attack Score methodology.
2022
Abuse of website-preview functionality
Reports described criminals using Hostinger’s preview URLs to operate phishing pages. The reported preview links could remain active for a limited period after account creation.
2019
Hostinger customer data breach
Hostinger disclosed a data breach that it said affected approximately 14 million customers.
2017
Allegations of manipulated reviews
Review Signal alleged that Hostinger influenced review ratings through reviews written by company employees.
2015
000webhost plaintext-password breach
A security researcher reported approximately 13 million leaked plaintext passwords associated with 000webhost. The service attributed the incident to an exploit in an old PHP version.
2015
Phishing hosted through Hostinger infrastructure
Netcraft reported that a large share of Steam phishing URLs it stopped during the reported period were hosted through Hostinger.