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Synthohol

06-09-2009 10:28 AM

Webhost hack wipes out data for 100,000 sites

Quote:

Some 50 percent of Vaserv's customers signed up for unmanaged service, which doesn't include data backup, Foster said. It remains unclear of those website owners will ever be able to retrieve their lost data, he said. As a result, at least half the websites that were hosted on the site remain offline.

source http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/webhost_attack/

DCMan

06-09-2009 10:38 AM

Quote:

The boss of Indian software firm LxLabs was found dead in a suspected suicide on Monday.

Reports of the death of K T Ligesh, 32, come in the wake of the exploitation of a critical vulnerability in HyperVM, a virtualization application made by LXLabs, to wipe out data on 100,000 sites hosted by the UK web hosting firm VAserv.

Link

Ouch... :(

Synthohol

06-09-2009 12:56 PM

wow, on other continents if you are responsible for a tragedy you kill yourself? in america we just write a book on it and get paid. thats weird.

unacceptable_risk

06-14-2009 07:25 AM

Wow, In Australia, you resign and collect a multi million dollar payout.

WackyComputer

06-14-2009 01:40 PM

Maybe it wasn't suicide. Maybe he was practicing the ancient art of Kung Fu.

Too soon?

Farabomb

06-15-2009 01:48 PM

lol, nice wacky.

My rule is 48 hrs then it's open season. :D

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