Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack
Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack
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Whew that sounds pretty bad.
Tl-dr:
*Danish hosting firms CloudNordic and AzeroCloud have suffered ransomware attacks.
During a data center migration, those servers were connected to the broader network, allowing the attackers to access critical administrative systems, all data storage silos, and all backup systems.
Danish media reports that the attacks have impacted "several hundred Danish companies" who lost everything they stored in the cloud, including websites, email inboxes, documents, etc.*
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This is a company ender. How would you even come back from this?
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Too many companies have stupid people running their IT department, stupid to the bone, thinking backups (on site and off site) are not important. This hosting company is prime example.
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All customers too I bet.
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It sounds like they had a really bad backup system for this to happen.
No one will ever trust them with their data and email again, so they might as well close their doors straight away. It’s unfortunate but a mistake like this is likely gonna cost you your business.
Its probably even an easily avoided issue too. If only they had offsite backups they could roll back...
It's not offsite backups that would have saved them, it's offline backups.
You can have all the data centers you want, but if they're all connected, then one ransomware attack can (and did) nuke them all.
If you have just one system that's unplugged with a copy of all the data, then your data will be fine. It's just time at that point, which could still be very very bad, but the data still exists.