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This is the latest network status of hostgator web hosting posted by GatorBrent on 10 February 2008

A 0 day exploit has made it to the public resulting in about 1% of our servers being hacked.

Any server running kernel version 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1. I are exploitable. This is the biggest linux 0 day exploit to come out in over a year if not years. This is not isolated to being a hostgator problem. This is a problem for any server in the world running the latest secure kernel.

All our servers are rebooting or have already been rebooted into a very old kernel that is known to be secure and not affected by this exploit. This is the only fix known at this time.

Hacked Servers last we checked a few minutes ago:

4runner, camaro, sonoma, gator364, and ram.

The hackers simply replaced the index files on all the above servers but sonoma. Which means all we need to do is change the kernal reboot and wala the server is secure again. Sonoma had a common rootkit installed on it that we can easily remove / clean / secure again. We see everything they did so it’s easy to undo.

We will be able to restore your index pages from backups on all the above servers except for some customers on the Ram server. Ram was in the middle of it’s weekly backup and it actually backed up some of the hacked indexes. Thus if we restored from backups it would be a hacked index. (not for everyone but some)

A few servers are going to be offline for hours while they perform fsck’s. Anytime you reboot as many servers as we have a few will need a system check.

Please don’t contact us via ticket, chat, or phone to ask for an update. We are completely overwhelmed and if you do reach someone all they will do is read to see if I updated this thread.

I will update you the second I have new information.

I apologize for the delay in getting this information to you. I know it doesn’t seem like we were dong anything, but our admin’s have been on top of the situation from the very minute this all started.

Please have patience and we will have everything fixed up very shortly.

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