- Apr 16, 2017
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Verelox, a provider of dedicated KVM and VPS servers based in The Hague, Netherlands, suffered a catastrophic outage after a former administrator deleted all customer data and wiped most of the company's servers.
Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers of Dutch Hosting Provider
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- Apr 22, 2015
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- Aug 31, 2014
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Former administrator - sounds like a case of sour grapes...
- Jul 6, 2015
- 737
Its a shame he didnt work for the tax man.
- Aug 2, 2015
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- Aug 2, 2015
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Why no backup's ? I can see for the cloud servers, but the rest should have and client protection of some
sort so that in the event of a crash or a tarded employee you rollback. While I was involved with gaming sites
I had a backup after each update or change myself or the admins made, if there were none for that month
we made a backup anyway, and stored that till the next month. I hope the clients had backups.
I can imagine the law suites that may fall on Verelox from customers claiming all kinds of levels of data loss and
while I feel for them, this could have been prevented, or at least made far less damaging.
I sure hope Verelox learns from this. wow
sort so that in the event of a crash or a tarded employee you rollback. While I was involved with gaming sites
I had a backup after each update or change myself or the admins made, if there were none for that month
we made a backup anyway, and stored that till the next month. I hope the clients had backups.
I can imagine the law suites that may fall on Verelox from customers claiming all kinds of levels of data loss and
while I feel for them, this could have been prevented, or at least made far less damaging.
I sure hope Verelox learns from this. wow
- Apr 16, 2017
- 2,097
Man you are killing me
- Apr 16, 2017
- 2,097
He must have deleted the backups too.Why no backup's ? I can see for the cloud servers, but the rest should have and client protection of some
sort so that in the event of a crash or a tarded employee you rollback. While I was involved with gaming sites
I had a backup after each update or change myself or the admins made, if there were none for that month
we made a backup anyway, and stored that till the next month. I hope the clients had backups.
I can imagine the law suites that may fall on Verelox from customers claiming all kinds of levels of data loss and
while I feel for them, this could have been prevented, or at least made far less damaging.
I sure hope Verelox learns from this. wow
I don't know about Verelox, but I am sure it's a good lesson for all other companies.
- Aug 30, 2015
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I wonder if there will be any criminal charges dropped, there should be.
- Jun 9, 2013
- 6,720
HaHaHaHa!!!!! Very clever.
he is THE admin, he has full power on every aspect of the network; he could even wipe all machines clean if he wanted...Why no backup's ? I can see for the cloud servers, but the rest should have and client protection of some
sort so that in the event of a crash or a tarded employee you rollback. While I was involved with gaming sites
I had a backup after each update or change myself or the admins made, if there were none for that month
we made a backup anyway, and stored that till the next month. I hope the clients had backups.
I can imagine the law suites that may fall on Verelox from customers claiming all kinds of levels of data loss and
while I feel for them, this could have been prevented, or at least made far less damaging.
I sure hope Verelox learns from this. wow
- Sep 26, 2014
- 2,973
You guys you have just made my day a lot better
- Apr 5, 2017
- 836
I actually think i wouldn't mind all my data being wiped. I could start afresh , imagine.... a whole new identity, i could be anyone i wanted to be
- Apr 16, 2017
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That would have been great if that was the case, but I don't think that's the situation here. The data deleted maybe mission critical for some individuals/organisations. And the dent put on the company's image is huge.I actually think i wouldn't mind all my data being wiped. I could start afresh , imagine.... a whole new identity, i could be anyone i wanted to be
- May 3, 2015
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For all intents and purposes this individual killed the hosting company and probably some others who lost mission critical data. An absolute lack of ethics as far as I'm concerned. Nothing Verelox did to him justify his actions.
- Aug 31, 2014
- 655
Disguntled EX-employee - out to get revenge from looks of it...
I know the feeling - been in a similar situation, but wouldn't do that to anyone
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