100,000 Websites 'Destroyed'...

by Iain Ainsworth

Posted: 15 years ago 15 replies

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Scary stuff...

Webhost hack wipes out data for 100,000 sites ? The Register

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Adrian Cooper 15 years ago

I hope they have backups or plenty of money when they get sued

It amazes me that this sort of exploit can still happen - it shouldn't.
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- Aronya 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by apc01
  
  I hope they have backups or plenty of money when they get sued
  
  "Some 50 percent of Vaserv's customers signed up for unmanaged service, which doesn't include data backup"
  
  Get out the popcorn. It should be a good show.
  
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  Iain Ainsworth 15 years ago
  
  I've heard a lot of small-medium sized companies have lost everything.
  
  The small business my wife works for was one of those affected :-(
  
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- seasoned 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by apc01
  
  I hope they have backups or plenty of money when they get sued
  
  It amazes me that this sort of exploit can still happen - it shouldn't.
  
  YEAH, You're telling me! This was NOT something the webowners should care about! It is something the SYSTEM owner should care about! Want to make backups a cost center? GREAT! Simply backup the DISK say weekly! If the customer doesn't have a backup, and THEY make a mistake, TOUGH! If they don't have a backup and YOU make a mistake, you can at least recover up to the week.
  
  EVEN people that had a backup would be hurt by this. They have to INSTALL it! EVEN people that bought MANAGED SERVICE would be hurt by this, because the restore was FAR slower!(Restoring blocks would restore the whole disk faster than a file backup would restore say 50% of the accounts.)
  
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mlongley 15 years ago

That would definitely be a bad day for that host. I normally try to host with a few companies and keep regular local backups. Thanks for the link!
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sbucciarel Banned 15 years ago

Funny thing is ... I was installing a blog for a customer and just had imported the database and was about finished when the whole site just disappeared. Same company. I thought it was something I did ... lol. Glad it wasn't me.
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Gor Gor 15 years ago

I think this will be happened more and more in the coming future. Internet world still get many grey area for those hackers, even big corp. 's system! So what we can do is fasten the seat belt!!
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mmacken 15 years ago

Backup, Backup, Backup and Backup again

For those of you who do not backup your sites, take note.

Hope not to many businesses will be heavily affected, especially with the current economic climate.
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Trent Brownrigg 15 years ago

Wow! Very scary! I'm glad it wasn't me this time but who knows about next time? It could happen to anyone. Definitely time to go do some backups.
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- Martin 15 years ago
  
  In a later story (also reported on the Register) it was said that the owner of the Virtualisation software that ran the hosting was found hanged in a cupboard :-(
  
  Sorta makes your own problems suddenly very small and manageable!
  
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  Iain Ainsworth 15 years ago
  
  Wow...
  
  That's very sad!
  
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  mojojuju 15 years ago
  
  I was on one of those VPS's that went down. There's still a lot of talk whether the exploit was due to a vulnerability in HyperVM, or if it was as an alleged perpetrator put it - the hosting company's passwords were being sniffed over the course of 2 months and that the passwords were managed poorly.
  
  What's really freaky is how the guy who wrote HyperVM suddenly offed himself. iTWire - HyperVM boss hangs himself after exploit damages 100,000 websites
  
  I'm finally given up on waiting for a new server though. Their support can hardly manage this fiasco.
  
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rapidscc 15 years ago

Ouch, that's sad for the family of the guy and painful for those small companies who invested and depend on their site.

I think the lesson here is always maintain a backup. I used to create accounting systems for companies here in the Philippines and it has been my practice to create multiple backups not only of the program source code but also the data.

Sometimes the backups contain data for an entire year and take a lot of space, still it's better safe than sorry.

oMar
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- Darth Executor 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by rapidscc
  
  I think the lesson here is always maintain a backup.
  
  Yep. I have nothing big to work with, just a web site, but I build everything offline and then upload it online. Since I use very few images uploads are blazing fast and if someone destroyed my web site I could have it back up in under 5 minutes.
  
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Darth Executor 15 years ago

I hate hackers. What's the point of destroying so much work? If they're caught (not likely, especially if they're in foreign countries that don't care), they should be given a life of hard labor with no parole.
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