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Cloud Provider DigitalOcean Exposes Users' VM Data

9 pointsby signifiersabout 12 years ago

4 comments

WestCoastJustinabout 12 years ago
Rackspace/Slicehost &#38; VPS.NET were identified for the same issue April 2012 [1]. Cloud providers <i>MUST</i> securely erase customer media upon release, so that this attack cannot happen.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890905" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890905</a>
rammarkabout 12 years ago
I 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.
voidlogicabout 12 years ago
They fixed it: <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-issue" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-is...</a>
dannowattsabout 12 years ago
ouch...