Penguin Internet incident

Reseller Server 7

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Penguin Internet experienced a minor incident on March 17, 2025, lasting 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 17, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 17, 2025, 06:00 PM UTC
Duration
30m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 17, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 17, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue with connectivity to Reseller Server 7

  2. identified Mar 17, 2025, 05:40 PM UTC

    The server had become non-responsive and so we have rebooted it. All services are coming back up and we will investigate further

  3. resolved Mar 17, 2025, 06:00 PM UTC

    All services are now operating normally. The logs show a very significant distributed brute force attack against a site that was running an obsolete version of WordPress and thus was likely targeted due to this. As a result, this site has been taken offline as this does not comply with our terms. We will continue to monitor however do not anticipate any further issues.