March 14, 2016
Staminus Communications – a California-based hosting and DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection company – is recovering a massive data breach after hackers broke down into its servers and leaked personal and sensitive details of its customers.
Though the company acknowledged that there was a problem in a message posted to Twitter on Thursday morning, it did not specify a data breach.
Staminus’s website went offline at 8 am Eastern Time on Thursday, and on Friday afternoon, a representative said in a Twitter post that “a rare event cascaded across multiple routers in a system-wide event, making our backbone unavailable.”