There are some media reports that Australian webhost Distribute.IT is reportedly suffered a malicious attack that has left it scrambling to reconfigure its network and servers. The company - best known as a domain name registrar - said in a post to its Twitter account that it had been the victim of a "very deliberate, coordinated & malicious attack".
Resellers and end users on the Whirlpool broadband forums first reported the hack at 5.50pm on Saturday 11 June posting what appears to be statement from the defaced Distribute.IT website:
OWNED BY EVIL AT EFNET YOU MOTHER flappERS NEED TO GET A CLUE BEFORE YOU RUN A BUSINESS YOUR SECURITY IS HORRIBLE !!!!! THE ONE AND ONLY EVIL AT EFNET I AM BACK MOTHER flappERS!!! :D The Outage the other day WAS NOT an upgrade they got HACKED and fabricated it with a lame excuse....
Comments made earlier this week on this forum thread suggest that Distribute IT customers have been struggling with less than stellar uptime recently. A glance at Distribute IT tweets from twitter hint at a much longer timeline.
Tue, 21 June 2011, 23:10
Don't you think an article titled "Why it's not newsworthy" ought to contain some kind of argument as to why you think it's not newsworthy? Aside from that, if you're writing about it, you think it's newsworthy. Also it's pretty obviously newsworthy that 4800 sites irretreivably went into the bit bucket. So you fail heavily on three counts.
Sun, 19 June 2011, 12:18
They are trying to make up for this now by offering one month free hosting. As if that comes close to losing a week's worth of business (and counting). This company is terrible and has been taught a lesson. I hope they go bankrupt.
Thu, 16 June 2011, 07:12
My website is still down due to this hack. It is now Thursday evening. How bad is this company?
Looks like I need to change webhost and dump Distibute.IT
Mon, 13 June 2011, 20:09
If it's not newsworthy, why is it written here? :p