UK Hosting Provider 123-Reg Accidentally Deletes Customer Sites (theregister.co.uk)

Richard Chirgwin, writing for The Register: UK hosting and domains provider 123-Reg has been struck by a weekend issue that knocked an unspecified number of VPS customers offline. The company posted a status message saying that the unspecified issues arose on April 16. 123-reg customer, software company INNmaster, contacted The Register directing our attention to its post on the topic, claiming a rogue script had deleted customer sites (such as this one). Slashdot has independently received several tips for this incident. Here's a copy of the email that Richard Winslow, Director of 123-Reg sent to the affected customers.

Comments

So that Serverfault question wasn't a hoax

[hardill]

Looks like that Serverfault question about running rm -rf / was real then

Re:It's the singularity

[14erCleaner]

It's agents in the present will probably mod you down for saying that.

Re:A hot I worked for did this once

[Anonymous Coward]

> Running rm -rf /*.*. (or even rm -rf /*.*) is unlikely to cause much damage on a *NIX system [...]

Alas, times have changed. Nowadays every idiot and his dog, coming over from DOS (perhaps via OSX [1]) has the irresistible urge to name his shell scripts "foo.sh". Those are the very same people who think "all files" is spelt "*.*", so the only consolation for all that ugliness is that they bring their own antimatter along. May they annihilate themselves in a flash of light!

[1] Yeah, yeah. OSX is Unix beneath the covers, they say. But the culture, the spirit, the soul? Rather an Unix zombie, no soul and eating braaaains.

Re:More space

[Archtech]

Congratulations. Your account has been upgraded with more free disk space.

Said the BOFH... 8-)