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I will just add it here: It happens all the time. Unfortunately, most hosting companies don't go public and warn their users. They try to hide and hope nobody
by rmdoss 11y ago
I will just add it here: It happens all the time.
Unfortunately, most hosting companies don't go public and warn their users. They try to hide and hope nobody else finds out.
Glad to see them going public, warning their users and doing the right thing.
- mrbluesman 11y agoGot proof to support those claims?
- rtehfm 11y agoSeveral years ago I worked at a hosting company that was compromised via external and internal actor. The external actor used a vulnerability of WHMCS (one of many available, at the time). To this date, the breaches were not disclosed publicly.
- phzpw 11y agoLol, I worked at the same company when this happened.
- gist 11y ago"Glad to see them going public, warning their users and doing the right thing." Let me ask you something - what do you see as the benefit to going public vs. not "doing the right thing". I mean that by airing dirty laundry you also run the risk of losing customers. Are you sure that the goodwill earned by doing this outweighs the downside of airing your dirty laundry? [1] [1] I am remembering a time long ago when a business owner told me about something personal that an employee told them. The business owner said "that was stupid that they told me that, so I fired them". This idea that all people in the world view things as generously as you might most likely hasn't been proven out in research (I am guessing..)
- scarecrowbob 11y agoThe benefit is that I feel better about the other years in which nothing like this has happened: it (possibly) means that things didn't happen and not just that I didn't hear about it. Whereas if I never hear about stuff (or worse, I discover stuff way after the fact) then I don't have much of a basis for knowing if there is any system at all. For instance, I don't mind getting a spam email or two when I open my email box in the morning, because then I am sure that it's working :D I don't know how sound or rational that feeling is, but I understand it.
- 2close4comfort 11y agoHow bad is your security? You have a responsibility to tell people. If you own it and you suck at what you do people should know that too. It is the right thing to do.
- gist 11y agoResponsibility doesn't pay for the high cost of healthcare, taxes or the rent. Sometimes it's important to be practical for survival purposes. Not every business out there operates with other people's money or with such gross profitability that they can just afford to have "responsibility" and "do the right thing".
- 2close4comfort 11y agoRespect is a personal trait not a business trait either you have it or you don't. If you want to make money fine but chances are if that is your focus you are not going to have quality people you need anyway you will have the ones' you want to afford.