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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) by stretch611 on Wednesday February 13 2019, @11:55PM (1 child)
This is an actual spam email. (I only changed my email address and borked the BitCoin account.)
Each iteration changes from time to time, but I have been getting a few of these (in my spam folder of course) everyday now for about 6-8 months. They all say something about hacking your device/router, claiming to see you on all the various pron sites, usually calling you a pervert, than threatening to reveal your perverted secrets to your friends and family unless a bitcoin transfer is made.
I only wonder how many people actually fall for this scam.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @12:10AM
Fun fact, most of the reports of this particular scam at work are from women. There are a lot of inferences you could make from this factoid. But the one that feels the most truthy is that people who fear it could conceivably be true aren't reporting it, while those that report are confident that it can't possibly be true.
Makes you wonder though. I always tell people, that if they REALLY had something, they'd have sent you a sample, even a single photo of you from your webcams perspective.