Distribute.IT has revealed that production data and backups for four of its shared servers were erased in a debilitating hack on its systems over a week ago and advised hosting customers that experts had deemed the servers “unrecoverable”. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/261195,distributeit-reveals-shared-server-data-loss.aspx
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