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Don't Piss off your Dutch Admins - Ecks - 06-11-2017
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, 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.
Read more : https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ex-admin-deletes-all-customer-data-and-wipes-servers-of-dutch-hosting-provider/
RE: Don't Piss off your Dutch Admins - zorrophreak - 06-12-2017
Damn. I actually used Verelox a little while back for some of my initial web systems. Good to know I moved out before this happened. Hope they can recover most customer data, and compensate at least a little for the data they can't recover.
RE: Don't Piss off your Dutch Admins - mothered - 06-12-2017
A corporation on that scale, and they didn't have a backup? At the bare minimum, a daily backup to a remote server?
They only have themselves to blame for not taking precautionary measures.
RE: Don't Piss off your Dutch Admins - Pirate - 06-12-2017
If they can't recover it they're about to take a big lawsuit up the ass lmfao
RE: Don't Piss off your Dutch Admins - g1ns - 06-12-2017
Indeed heard from it, coming from The Netherlands myself. Sad action, hopefully there will be a lawsuit indeed.