THEY JUST FORMATTED EVERYTHING —
“Catastrophic” hack on email provider destroys almost two decades of data
VFEmail says data for virtually all US users is gone for good.
DAN GOODIN
Ars Technica
2/13/2019, 5:25 AM
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/catastrophic-hack-on-email-provider-destroys-almost-two-decades-of-data/
Plausible reasons:
(1) An organised-crime operation suspected that the ISP was about to be
hit with a sub poena for email-traffic that could have broken the
operation and led to prosecutions of the operation's leaders? (Could
apply to an awful lot of 'legit' corporations really).
(2) An intending extortionist doing a test of their skills, preferably
one that he could use as a reference-project?
(3) Someone doing a demo in order to sell a paid gig as a destroyer of
sites?
Now let's see:
Am I *more* or *less* exposed by managing my own email-archives (25
years and counting)?
At least I can afford an air-gap to the archival copies, which might be
too expensive for an ISP?
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