Webhost Hack Wipes Out Data for 100,000 Sites - Developer Commits Suicide

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author

June 08, 2009

Vaserv suspects zero-day virtualization vuln

A large internet service provider said data for as many as 100,000 websites was destroyed by attackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a widely-used virtualization application.

Technicians at UK-based Vaserv.com were still scrambling to recover data on Monday evening UK time, more than 24 hours after unknown hackers were able to gain root access to the company’s system, Rus Foster, the company’s director told The Register. He said the attackers were able to penetrate his servers by exploiting a critical vulnerability in HyperVM, a virtualization application made by a company called LXLabs.

Foster said he’s been unable to reach anyone at LXLabs to discuss the suspected …

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