OVH, the largest cloud hosting provider in Europe and one of the largest hosting providers in the world, suffered on March 10, 2021 a fire in its Strasbourg, France data centers. The French plant in Strasbourg includes 4 data centers: SBG1, SBG2, SBG3, and SBG4. Fire destroyed one center, SBG2, and four rooms of a second one, SBG1. The fire started in SBG2.
The fire impacted 3.6 million websites, including niche government platforms in France, Britain, Poland and the Ivory Coast. OVH urged customers to implement their disaster recovery plans.
Cybercrime groups have also been impacted. Costin Raiu, the Director of the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky Lab, revealed that 36% of 140 OVH servers used by various threat actors as Command and Control servers went offline.
OVH has announced its plans to power servers up starting this week. SBG3 should have power starting March 17, and the other two data centers, SBG1 and SBG4, should have power starting March 19. Servers in these data centers will be powered up gradually over a few days.
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