Unknown hackers targeting a zero-day vulnerability in a virtualization application called HyperVM made by LXLabs were able to gain root access at UK-based Vaserv.com Sunday evening destroying data for as many as 100,000 websites.
Half of Vaserv’s customers signed up for unmanaged service, which doesn’t include data backup.
Log updates from Vaserv technicians as they worked to recover the lost data.
We have worked tirelessly through the night and over the last 48 hours to recover as many VPS as possible. However, we have now reached the end of all of our servers, and as such, if your server is not currently up, or not partly up (i.e. it is up but not working due to a configuration issue) then it is unfortunate that you will have lost your data due to this third party attack.
http://www.vaserv.com/index
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/webhost_attack/
The Times Of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/Techie-hangs-himself-in-HSR-Layout-/articleshow/4633101.cms
Web Hosting Talk
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