Server down

Hi All,

As many of you have already discovered the server hosting the main wx
websites is unreachable. I received this from the support staff
yesterday:

"""
As many of you are aware, we were hacked today around 7pm GMT and
portion of our service has been cut off (mostly US and portion of UK
servers). At this point, due to a security bug recently discovered in
HyperVM panel, we've brought down most of our VPS nodes and are
investigating situation. At this time we do not have an ETA on this,
but we want to stress out that we have the whole team, onsite DC staff
on each location + some extra help connected and working on the
situation.
"""

My VPS was still online at the time and seemed to be working fine.
However in another report they stated that the VPSs that were still up
would fail if they were rebooted due to the damage that was done to
the host, and that they would still need to do some work on those
nodes.

Status reports of the repairs are being posted at these addresses:
http://66.71.245.2/~vaservc/index1.html
http://66.71.245.2/~vaservc/

Robin

Reading round the LxLabs forums it seems you can be happy if you ever get your server back :slight_smile: Amazing security holes.

-Matthias

Repair status is at http://vaserv.com/, we are in the Texas data
center. Since my VPS was still up and running a few hours after the
hack event I'm confident that the data is intact and will be
restored. The hosting staff have said that they took everything down
as a precautionary measure and are now looking at each node
individually.

Robin

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ :open_mouth:

-Mike

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On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Robin Dunn robin@alldunn.com wrote:

Repair status is at http://vaserv.com/, we are in the Texas data

center. Since my VPS was still up and running a few hours after the

hack event I’m confident that the data is intact and will be

restored. The hosting staff have said that they took everything down

as a precautionary measure and are now looking at each node

individually.

Robin

I wrote an update on this in the wx-users group and rather than
repeating it here I'll just give you the link:

http://groups.google.com/group/wx-users/browse_frm/thread/9e69bfdaae8ea272