A targeted attack against a U.K.-based Web hosting company has destroyed the data of an estimated 100,000 of the company s customers sites. Vaserv.com was hit by an attack this weekend that exploited a flaw in a virtualization application the company was running, leading to the erasure of mass amounts of customer data. The attackers were able to penetrate his servers by exploiting a critical vulnerability in HyperVM, a. company called LXLabs.com.
Source: https://threatpost.com/attack-destroys-data-thousands-web-host-vaservs-customers-060909/72811/