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Cloud Provider DigitalOcean Exposes Users' VM Data
- WestCoastJustin 13y agoRackspace/Slicehost & VPS.NET were identified for the same issue April 2012 [1]. Cloud providers MUST securely erase customer media upon release, so that this attack cannot happen. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890905
- dannowatts 13y agoouch...
- rammark 13y agoI hope that part of their follow-up to this includes information about not being able to fully trust that non-encrypted data on SSD drives can be 100% wiped. Users of hosting services should not be storing extremely sensitive unencrypted information on any shared hardware.
- voidlogic 13y agoThey fixed it: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-issue https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-is...