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Hackers have breached the severs[sic] of email provider VFEmail.net and wiped the data from all its US servers, destroying all US customers' data in the process.
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.
[...] Back in November 2015, VFEmail was one of the many online email providers that were targeted by Armada Collective, a group of hackers who demanded ransom payments from victim companies to stop ongoing DDoS attacks.
There were servers in the US and in Europe; I think US users really means all users except the ones in the Europe server.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @09:23PM (3 children)
I thought similarly. Something like this is the work of professionals. Professionals get paid one way or the other. There is no money in destroying with no warning. Therefore, there must be an incentive from somewhere else, either some bigger delayed payment, revenge, the LULz, or sabotage.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @10:09PM (2 children)
Maybe someone using his services needed to destroy some information and figured wholesale destruction was the best option?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday February 12 2019, @10:57PM (1 child)
The best way to hide what particular thing was targeted to be destroyed is to destroy everything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @12:52AM
But if that were the case they would have used sharks with lasers.