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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Wed Feb 10 17:15:00 2021
    Hello All!

    This comes as a surprise to me:

    http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/

    "News broke yesterday that a hacker had breached the internal
    systems, including official website, admin section, and customer
    database, at NoSupportLinuxHosting, compromising its entire
    operation, and that it was therefore closing down. The company
    website has been replaced by a short statement, including "We
    can no longer operate the No Support Linux Hosting business. All
    customers should immediately download backups of their websites
    and databases through cPanel." "

    I thought linux-based servers were generally impervious to
    hacks. Is this a sign of more events like this to come?

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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to August Abolins on Wed Feb 10 18:57:28 2021
    On 10 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...

    I thought linux-based servers were generally impervious to
    hacks. Is this a sign of more events like this to come?

    It really depends on what happened and how you define "hack". Anyone can have a linux server on the internet, but if your username is "root", your password is "password" and your SSH port is exposed to the internet, some script kiddie will be in your system in as little as 30 minutes.

    My guess is nosupportlinuxhosting.com's backend infrastructure was breached somehow so that hackers had access to all of their customer's systems.

    All customers should immediately download backups of their websites
    and databases through cPanel.

    cPanel has been having all kinds of problems, the most recent one is a 2FA bypass vulnerability:

    https://www.recordedfuture.com/cpanel-whm-vulnerability/

    I could imagine that may have something to do with their shutdown.


    Jay

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