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.

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Re:A hot I worked for did this once

[TheRaven64]

so gave a sales person root access who promptly ran rm -rf /*.*.

Running rm -rf /*.*. (or even rm -rf /*.*) is unlikely to cause much damage on a *NIX system as it's very unusual to have any files with dots in their names in the root directory and even more unlikely to have any directories that have dots in their names.