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Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers of Dutch Hosting Provider (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader quotes BleepingComputer: Verelox, a provider of dedicated KVM and VPS servers based in The Hague, Netherlands, suffered a catastrophic outage after a former administrator deleted all customer data and wiped most of the company's servers. Details of what exactly happened aren't available, but according to posts on various web hosting forums [1, 2, 3], the incident appears to have taken place Thursday, when users couldn't access their servers or the company's website.
Verelox's homepage came back online earlier Friday, but the website was plastered with a grim message informing users of the ex-admin's actions. Following the incident, the hosting provider decided to take the rest of its network offline and focus on recovering customer data. Verelox staff don't believe they can recover all data.
Saturday night the web site was advising customers that the network and hosting services "will be back this week with security updates," adding that "current customers who are still interested in our services will receive compensation."
Verelox's homepage came back online earlier Friday, but the website was plastered with a grim message informing users of the ex-admin's actions. Following the incident, the hosting provider decided to take the rest of its network offline and focus on recovering customer data. Verelox staff don't believe they can recover all data.
Saturday night the web site was advising customers that the network and hosting services "will be back this week with security updates," adding that "current customers who are still interested in our services will receive compensation."
Hey dumb motherfucker, ever heard of a logic bomb? Or backdoors? If this guy went and deleted everything, what exactly makes you think that he didn't also backdoor everything or planted a logic bomb to delete it all.
Sounds like you are just as stupid as the guys who work at Verelox who think that just removing a account/passwords solves all security issues related to firing a sysadmin.
Firing a sysadmin is perhaps one of the most dangerous things a company can do.
I wouldn't hire a guy who copies all my data to his house.
Funny, it's data from *my* company. I'm the guy who *owns* the data. So why shouldn't back a copy up to my 12 TB storage array at my house?
If I worked for *your* company, I would back it up wherever *you* wanted it.
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