Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack
Summary: Email provider VFEmail suffered what its founder called "catastrophic destruction" when an unknown intruder formatted the disks on every server, wiping all primary and backup data in the United States, with the company catching the attacker in the act on a mail server in The Netherlands. Founder Rick Romero said he recovered a backup drive hosted in The Netherlands but fears some 18 years of customer email for U.S. users may be gone, and the intruder appeared to be working from a server based in Bulgaria with no ransom demanded.
Why it matters: One user, John Senchak, lost roughly 60,000 emails accumulated over more than a decade, and Romero said he does not have high expectations of recovering any U.S. data - a reminder that an intruder with privileged access can destroy every backup server as easily as plant ransomware, with no extortion demand to negotiate.
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