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No.
Yes.
Maybe.
Pick a target. Wait 18yrs.
18 years. Servers grew up and left the nest.
It is because of events like this, security experts recommend to place your server behind seven proxies. Then the only way to hack is to trace IP address using Visual Basic and everyone knows only NSA has access to Visual Basic.
Seventh
sonserver of a seventhsonserver.Neo never wiped emails. Hillary Clinton on the other hand...
A moment of silence for our fallen comrade.
Isn't Vfemail marketed as a privacy-oriented service?
We cannot know from this information that the content of the servers weren't downloaded elsewhere, but if it was only deleted, I think that's a pretty good result as long as hacks go. I'd rather everything is deleted than stolen.
I don't think it should be common-practice to make backups of email servers. Will you secure all HDDs and backup HDDs in the future? They could be inspected and recovered by 3rd-parties after disposal. You're just increasing points of infiltration by making multilpe backups.
If you need retention of email due to business or legal reasons, that should be a seperate service for those who need it, but as far as privacy-minded users go, too much backing up is unnecessary.
Also kudos on the stealth marketing with the sharing of this news by Mailcheap, LOL.
Now that this thread has been resurrected I just want to add that VFEmail has pulled through and are still going strong. They made a mistake but they've overcome what I could only describe as a nightmarish scenario.
A locked-down, secured backup machine would have a much lower attack surface than a mailserver. And backups are necessary if you value your email data, for a self hosted machine maybe you could skip it depending on your requirements, but for a provider its not an option to lose customer data that is entrusted to us. We keep rolling snapshots (7 daily + 4 weekly) at Mailcheap now and have a data restoration tool to recover deleted email data.
A privacy-minded user should use client side OpenPGP encryption. They're then covered against potentially any data leaks. If you prefer paper, we can offer PaperStorage™ (as a custom feature), so instead of storing mails on disk, each mail would be printed to paper. This is not a joke, we're a very flexible email provider.
Kind regards,
Pavin aka StealthMarketer™