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Got Rackspace? Got WordPress? If so… you may just have a problem.

We’ve been getting calls today from Rackspace clients (hosting WordPress sites) that have been compromised similarly to the GoDaddy hack a few weeks back. The Unmask Parasites Blog has an excellent article on the attack posted on their, well, their blog.

There are some huge sites that have been hit, and some not-so-large as well (we personally were hit by an earlier attack). In the “Is Cloud the answer” debates, this will surely become an example of how a compromise in the cloud, can devastate an entire farm.

Update 6/19/2010

Shortly after this article was initially posted, Rackspace via their Rackcloud Twitter account posted the following message:

Reports, schmeorts.

Of course… details never came. I tweeted them myself (Oh no you didn’t… Oh yes I did):

Show me the money.

At this point, they haven’t replied to my request or posted any additional information on their twitter account. I think they moved on… the next day they were more interested in talking about how “Cassandra by Example translated to Japanese!”

Also, one day… one day I’ll spell check my tweets. Until then, read at your own grammatical risk.

Read more:

http://blog.unmaskparasites.com/2010/06/14/attack-on-wordpress-blogs-on-rackspace/