[At-Large] Sonoma Valley Hospital loses 3-letter domain name to hijackers

Evan Leibovitch evan at telly.org
Fri Aug 23 15:08:47 UTC 2019


On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 10:59, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:

> With all the safeguards in use, that's really surprising.
>

Surprising? I would say scandalous.
And it's an abuse vector that ought to concern At-Large far more than gTLD
allocation.

Why doesn't ICANN have an appeals mechanism that allows maliciously
redirected gTLDs to be returned to their original owner if malice can be
demonstrated? Since we now now that "all the safeguards in use" can still
be circumvented, why isn't there an after-the-fact remedy?

Yes, it could be messy. But certainly you must all realize that if this
goes unchecked it only opens the door to a new form of ransomware along
side "we've encrypted your site".

- Evan






> Best,
>
> Olivier
>
> On 23/08/2019 16:46, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
>
>
> https://www.sonomanews.com/home/a1/9924307-181/hospital-website-hijacked-by-pirates?sba=AAS
>
> Sonoma Valley Hospital’s website was hacked earlier this month, forcing
> the change of its URL and email addresses, hospital officials announced
> last week.
>
> On Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 6:30 p.m., the hospital’s domain svh.com was
> “maliciously acquired,” said Celia Kruse de la Rosa, the hospital’s
> communications director.
>
> Hospital CEO Kelly Mather added: “The hijacking of our domain name was
> surprising and we are finding out, not unusual for highly valuable three
> letter domain names such as ‘svh.com.’”
>
> When it became apparent that the hospital would not get the domain name
> returned, they “began migrating all internet connectivity to the new and
> current domain: sonomavalleyhospital.org (web) and @
> sonomavalleyhospital.org (email),” de la Rosa said.
>
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