[outages] NameCheap down, was it hacked?

[Chuck Anderson]

It looks like NameCheap is down.  It may have been hacked, because I
got a Security Notification from them about a domain I have.

https://www.namecheap.com/

Website is offline

No cached version of this page is available.
Error 522 Ray ID: 1bbc4b52c02609be
Connection timed out



http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.namecheap.com

 It's not just you! http://www.namecheap.com looks down from here.

Check another site?



The e-mail says:

Received: from mta.messagebus.com (mba1056.namecheap.messagebus.com [108.175.18.57])
From: "Namecheap.com - Security Notification" <support at namecheap.com>
Subject: Security Notification

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Namecheap.com
Activity Notification
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Dear <name>

There was some activity in your namecheap account. Information on what
type of change occurred is available below.

Notification For : HOSTS
Date : 2/20/2015 11:36:09 AM 
IP Address : 192.168.1.10
Username : <username>
Domain (if relevant) : <domain>.org


Old Details
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Host Information
------------------

New Details
-----------

Host Information
------------------

  Name: www
  Type: CNAME
  Address:parkingpage.namecheap.com.
  Name: @
  Type: URL
  Address: http://www.<domain>.org/?from=@

Additional Information
----------------------
N/A


Thanks,
Namecheap.com
http://www.namecheap.com



>host 108.175.18.57
57.18.175.108.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mba1056.namecheap.messagebus.com.
>whois 108.175.18.57
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[Redirected to whois.messagebus.com:4321]
[Querying whois.messagebus.com]
[whois.messagebus.com]
%rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.messagebus.com (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.10-pre6)
network:Class-Name:network
network:ID:MESSAGEBUS-BLOCK1.108.175.16.0/20
network:Auth-Area:108.175.16.0/20
network:Network-Name:MESSAGEBUS-BLOCK1.108.175.106.0
network:IP-Network:108.175.16.0/20
network:IP-Network-Block:108.175.16.0-108.175.24.0
network:Organization;I:Message Bus
network:Tech-Contact;I:hostmaster at labs.messagebus.com
network:Admin-Contact;I:hostmaster at labs.messagebus.com
network:Created:20120706
network:Updated:20130313
network:Updated-By:hostmaster at labs.messagebus.com

%referral rwhois://whois.messagebus.com:4321/auth-area=108.175.16.0/20