sentences:  It is widely acknowledged by the hacker(s) and parties involved that the core exploit had to do with the administrator of those VPS's reusing the same password on all installs, and not utilizing the SSL security feature.Experts believe that this led to the transmission of the password in plain text, allowing hackers to sniff and exploit the host.Since then, it has since been discovered that only a few security vulnerabilities were existent in both products, which have since been patched.