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

[Jonathan Zuck]

Agree. Let's add this to our DNS abuse discussions

Jonathan Zuck
Executive Director
Innovators Network Foundation
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From: At-Large <at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>
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Subject: Re: [At-Large] Sonoma Valley Hospital loses 3-letter domain name to hijackers

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 10:59, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com<mailto: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<http://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<http://sonomavalleyhospital.org> (web) and @sonomavalleyhospital.org<http://sonomavalleyhospital.org> (email),” de la Rosa said.



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