| Yeah, the problem was with the popular host 'vaserv.com' (also known as fsckvps) - they were running HyperVM and were subject to an exploit where the attacker just decided to delete the harddisks of everyones VM.
About 5% of OSGrid was hosted there (~100-150 regions out of 2000), including the author of the original HyperGrid Business article's regions. |