Hi,
neko.im had a similar experience about a year ago, though I'm unsure
if anything was actually stolen. They broke in via www - presumably
some old and insecure PHP, from IP 83.149.126.66, which, if I recall
correctly, was owned by a datacentre in Sweden at that time. I filed
an abuse notice, but never heard anything back.

I haven't heard of any suspcious activity from jabber.sk, though two
of my users have reported suspicious activity on their own accounts -
might have taken the hackers this long, I suppose. If anyone hears
anything, please do let me know.

The mass-MUC creation from Syria is well known to me, I've had to
block room-creation from non-local users.

Sincerely,
Nulani.



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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:24:55 +0200
> From: Mathias Ertl <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Operators] Jabber.sk - stolen ejabberd databases
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> Hi Peter,
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:01:06AM +0200, Peter Viskup wrote:
>> let me inform you all internal ejabberd databases of server
>> jabber.sk were stolen. Please inform us in case you will be facing
>> any suspicious activity from jabber.sk accounts. We already
>> performed infrastructure inventory and it looks like they were
>> interested only in ejabberd databases.
>> Attacker used IP 188.126.79.56 which is registered in Sweden and one
>> local system account was compromised.
>> Will inform you once will have some other important information for you.
>
> Did you find out how the attacker gained access?  Was any Jabber software
> used to gain access?
>
> greetings, Mati
>
> --
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:59:10 +0200
> From: Peter Viskup <[email protected]>
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> On 08/31/2012 12:24 PM, Mathias Ertl wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:01:06AM +0200, Peter Viskup wrote:
>>> let me inform you all internal ejabberd databases of server
>>> jabber.sk were stolen. Please inform us in case you will be facing
>>> any suspicious activity from jabber.sk accounts. We already
>>> performed infrastructure inventory and it looks like they were
>>> interested only in ejabberd databases.
>>> Attacker used IP 188.126.79.56 which is registered in Sweden and one
>>> local system account was compromised.
>>> Will inform you once will have some other important information for you.
>> Did you find out how the attacker gained access?  Was any Jabber software
>> used to gain access?
>>
>> greetings, Mati
>>
> Hi Mathias and all,
> at this time we do not have evidence about any Jabber software used to
> gain access. They used weakness in our hosting infrastructure to access
> some of our systems. But we do not know how they reached ejabberd
> databases till now and the investigation is still ongoing.
> It looks like they were interested only in ejabberd databases as they
> didn't break any hosting service despite they got root access on one of
> our systems.
> It could be related to activities of syrian people using our server on
> last months.
> I am going to contact owner of that IP and ask them for help to get more
> information about this break attempt.
>
> --
> Peter
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:10:34 +0200
> From: Friedrich Kron <[email protected]>
> To: XMPP Operators Group <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Operators] Jabber.sk - stolen ejabberd databases
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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> Hello Peter,
>
> which services are you running at this host, maybe there are still some 
> artefacts? for compromised servers you can try this one .. 
> http://rootkit.nl/projects/rootkit_hunter.html
>
> regards, Frz
>
>
> On Aug 31, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Peter Viskup <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 08/31/2012 12:24 PM, Mathias Ertl wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:01:06AM +0200, Peter Viskup wrote:
>>>> let me inform you all internal ejabberd databases of server
>>>> jabber.sk were stolen. Please inform us in case you will be facing
>>>> any suspicious activity from jabber.sk accounts. We already
>>>> performed infrastructure inventory and it looks like they were
>>>> interested only in ejabberd databases.
>>>> Attacker used IP 188.126.79.56 which is registered in Sweden and one
>>>> local system account was compromised.
>>>> Will inform you once will have some other important information for you.
>>> Did you find out how the attacker gained access?  Was any Jabber software
>>> used to gain access?
>>>
>>> greetings, Mati
>>>
>> Hi Mathias and all,
>> at this time we do not have evidence about any Jabber software used to gain 
>> access. They used weakness in our hosting infrastructure to access some of 
>> our systems. But we do not know how they reached ejabberd databases till now 
>> and the investigation is still ongoing.
>> It looks like they were interested only in ejabberd databases as they didn't 
>> break any hosting service despite they got root access on one of our systems.
>> It could be related to activities of syrian people using our server on last 
>> months.
>> I am going to contact owner of that IP and ask them for help to get more 
>> information about this break attempt.
>>
>> --
>> Peter
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:23:03 +0200
> From: Mathias Ertl <[email protected]>
> To: XMPP Operators Group <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Operators] Jabber.sk - stolen ejabberd databases
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
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> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:59:10PM +0200, Peter Viskup wrote:
>> It could be related to activities of syrian people using our server
>> on last months.
>
> We have seen massive abuse from Syrian and Russian IPs, (i.e. mass-MUC
> creation), where they claimed to be Syrian. This was already discussed
> off-list. If they start attacking servers, this gets to a whole new level!
>
> greetings, Mati
>
> --
> I only read plain text mail! I prefer pgp|gpg signed & encrypted mails!
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:31:10 -0600
> From: Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>
> To: XMPP Operators Group <[email protected]>
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> On 8/31/12 9:23 AM, Mathias Ertl wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:59:10PM +0200, Peter Viskup wrote:
>>> It could be related to activities of syrian people using our
>>> server on last months.
>>
>> We have seen massive abuse from Syrian and Russian IPs, (i.e.
>> mass-MUC creation), where they claimed to be Syrian. This was
>> already discussed off-list. If they start attacking servers, this
>> gets to a whole new level!
>
> Agreed.
>
> At jabber.org we recently experienced some massive DoS attacks. We
> still have not verified the source or purpose of those attacks.
>
> Peter
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:36:47 +0200
> From: Thomas Camaran <[email protected]>
> To: XMPP Operators Group <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Operators] Jabber.sk - stolen ejabberd databases
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> hi,
> in chatme.im i was an anomal trafic from jabber.ru
>
> 2012/8/31 Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>:
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>> On 8/31/12 9:23 AM, Mathias Ertl wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:59:10PM +0200, Peter Viskup wrote:
>>>> It could be related to activities of syrian people using our
>>>> server on last months.
>>>
>>> We have seen massive abuse from Syrian and Russian IPs, (i.e.
>>> mass-MUC creation), where they claimed to be Syrian. This was
>>> already discussed off-list. If they start attacking servers, this
>>> gets to a whole new level!
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>> At jabber.org we recently experienced some massive DoS attacks. We
>> still have not verified the source or purpose of those attacks.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> - --
>> Peter Saint-Andre
>> https://stpeter.im/
>>
>>
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