Recent News about AltusHost

[snkr007]

I got this email today morning :

Dear clients,

Due security leak in WHMCS our management panel which is powered by WHMCS has been hacked today around 5PM (CET).
After hackers entered to our management panel they started removing accounts located on our VPS master node as well as some shared hosting servers.
Since we noticed issue after 10 minutes, we've localized attack, powered off all compromised servers.
We have backups of most compromised servers, but unfortunately, for some of them we do not have. We was just in middle of setting up r1backup server for all our shared hosting servers and VPS nodes.

Because of this, in next 24-48 hours our management panel will be off because of security reasons. Since we need deeply to investigate this attack. We are in business since 2008 and this is 1st time such big attack happened on us. This was well organized by someone who doesn't like us so much.

Since many of you were down for 5+ hours, and some of you still are, we will offer 2 months free to all clients who were down today.
We do understand how mad you are on us now, we are mad as well. Such thing isn't good neither for your or our business.

But we assure you that all will be back in function ASAP and we will give our best to make you, our client, happy!

This today were an hard, but good lesson for our company.
Within next 48h We will switch from WHMCS to UberSmith which is much more secured Data Center Management portal (ubersmith.com) and leading DC Management portal today.

Our servers are very secure, however this time, our management panel failed due security issue in WHMCS. Anyway, we don't try to make any excuses, it's our fault and we are ready to take full responsibility because of that.

Most of accounts are restored from our local backups now and 90% of VPS & Shared Hosting servers should work now without issues.
If your website is still down, please email us on support@altushost.com so we can work on your matter.

Your sincerely,
Julian F.
Senior Technical Engineer
AltusHost Inc.

snkr007 Reviewed by snkr007 on 7th Feb 2012. Recent News about AltusHost I got this email today morning : Rating: 5

[foxman]

Shouldn't this be in hosting discussion?

[.:Raymond:.]

wow their english skills are amazing.

[ibby]

wow their english skills are amazing.

lol i cant speak "proper" english when i am high. that could be the case. they where high [hmmm]

[vizoomer]

lol i cant speak "proper" english when i am high. that could be the case. they where high [hmmm]

@ibby you got some weed then ?

anyways on-topic aren't there a lot whmcs exploits these days for KWWH hosts ? O.o box started their devastation with that and altushost ? o.O

[Krun!x]

@ibby you got some weed then ?

anyways on-topic aren't there a lot whmcs exploits these days for KWWH hosts ? O.o box started their devastation with that and altushost ? o.O

WHMcs has patched security holes a few months ago. There were probably running a super old WHMcs version. It wouldn't surprise me though.

AltusHost is known for losing data: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1044901
Random VPS reformats: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpo...8&postcount=11
Stupidity / spreading malware: http://www.besthostingforums.com/841467-post2.htm

[glanpol-net]

Never mind plz delete this post ...

[mnmnk1]

Anyone who still have their sites offline?

[m107]

LOL, Altushost fail again and again and again

[safefake]

Some good things? They don't check the holes and update?