“We have been working diligently to recover the information that we can. Currently if your VPS is not responding it is best to consider that all data and information is lost…” This is the start of a message posted on VAServ’s website, a UK-based provider of virtual private servers.  VAServ uses HyperVM,  a virtualization application developed by Bangalore-based LxLabs, which was found to contain critical vulnerabilities that led to a 0-day data destroying attack leaving many clients in the dark.  A report from The Register states that as many as 100,000 websites were destroyed, most without an option of any kind of data restore. The vulnerabilities were posted on May 21 and the timeline suggests the software vendor had ignored the warnings. Additionally, LxLabs founder and owner K.T. Ligesh committed suicide this week by hanging himself.  His best friend reported Ligesh was depressed over losing an important contract.

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