Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @08:50AM from the attack-and-destroy dept.

Hackers have breached the severs of email provider VFEmail.net and wiped the data from all its US servers, destroying all US customers' data in the process. From a report: The attack took place yesterday, February 11, and was detected after the company's site and webmail client went down without notice. "At this time, the attacker has formatted all the disks on every server," the company said yesterday. "Every VM is lost. Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost. This was more than a multi-password via SSH exploit, and there was no ransom. Just attack and destroy," VFEmail said. The company's staff is now working to recover user emails, but as things stand right now, all data for US customers appears to have been deleted for good and gone into /dev/null.

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Re:IMAP/POP3 provider... by chiefcrash · 2019-02-12 09:36 · Score: 3, Informative

Which, hopefully they've been paying attention: the current state of recovery means if you reconnect your client to your new mailbox, all your local mail will be lost (according to an update on their website)

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