Distribute.IT: A cautionary tale

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://risky.biz/distributeit

By Patrick Gray
risky.biz
June 21, 2011

It looks like Melbourne-based hosting company and ICANN-accredited 
domain name registrar Distribute.IT is fighting for its very survival.

The company has posted this depressing notice on what's left of its 
Web-site.

It might seem crazy, but Distribute.IT is facing nothing short of an 
existential crisis because, absurdly, it didn't take offline backups. As 
the company itself put it:

"Our Data Recovery teams have been working around the clock in an 
attempt to recover data from the affected servers shared Servers [sic]. 
At this time, we regret to inform that the data, sites and emails that 
were hosted on Drought, Hurricane, Blizzard and Cyclone can be 
considered by all the experts to be unrecoverable... our greatest fears 
have been confirmed that not only was the production data erased during 
the attack, but also key backups, snapshots and other information that 
would allow us to reconstruct these Servers from the remaining data."

This is exactly the scenario I discussed with the host of the PaulDotCom 
Security Weekly podcast Paul Asadoorian during an interview in Risky 
Business back in episode 188 [42:05].

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