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Originally Posted by epitome
I think so. I do remember Brad offering any help he could and maybe even sent people to help get them back online.
If I recall they did have backups but restoration took forever and may have not been complete.
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Reality Check Network had indeed a rogue ex employee who apparently hacked their master server according to them which had all the SSH keys to all client servers. I believe he then nuked the MBRs on all servers and restarted them. They did had backups but the system was not designed for retrieving so many backups at once. A lot of customers were down for days, including major tube and torrent sites.
I know Brad offered to help, but I don't believe it didn't come that far. ISPrime did help them a lot though as RCN is in their datacenter.
Another hosting company who went bankrupt and had a LOT of adult customers was Alphared. The owner was involved in malware and got sued by Microsoft. Bills couldn't get paid anymore and the entire company went under leaving many webmasters behind without backups or access to their data.
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