So I was reading this article, linked below, about a recent incident with email provider VFEmail. Apparently, someone 'hacked' into their datacenter and wiped all data. A catastrophic destruction of all of its servers by an unknown assailant who wiped out almost two decades' worth of data and backups in a matter of hours.

 

As a sysadmin myself, I feel for these people. Also a good reminder to everyone, if you have a backup, keep the backup somewhere where the main data isn't. 

 

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/catastrophic-hack-on-email-provider-destroys-almost-two-decades-of-data/?fbclid=IwAR22wx1RzNdmHzvQc4a2Vcg7uDF9ikjRvCNW4O2-40ETlr50ZTZBUnDFTLo

 

2 hours ago, ineseri said:

As a sysadmin myself, I feel for these people.

 

And would recommend that they use reliable and secure Microsoft server technologies.

I'm quite fond of the idea of search and destroy. Makes me feel that someone had content on the servers they wanted to know for sure was going to be removed. Why destroy everything when you could have sold the database online for a pretty penny?

When I read the article I was very interested in the motive.