Thousands of people have discovered the disappearance of their web sites following the misdeeds of a hacker .
Worse, the website owners have no hope of recovering their sites.
Unless you have made a backup independent of the host, site owners do not ever see again: they are permanently deleted. The hacker that attacked the host Australian Distribut.IT has indeed erased everything on all the machines available online.
So Distribut.IT had to confess he had never done off-line backup of customer data. All websites, data, backups and all information associated networks. There are more than 4,800 websites that have simply vaporized
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