“Catastrophic” hack wipes out email provider’s entire infrastructure

The damage, Romero reported, extended to VFEmail’s “entire infrastructure,” including mail hosts, virtual machine hosts, and a SQL server cluster. At the time this post was going live, a status page reported that VFEmail was now delivering email again, although it wasn’t clear if service was working for US-based accounts. “As mentioned, VFEmail started with a single machine, but over time we’ve built out, adding systems for load balancing/failover and separating services.

Source: arstechnica.com