: Had something similar happen when a drive started to fail and my hosting provider decided at 4AM to do something about it before the drive froze up. Yours should have completed the move,

Had something similar happen when a drive started to fail and my hosting provider decided at 4AM to do something about it before the drive froze up. Yours should have completed the move, sounds like they somehow got stuck in the middle which means you haven't been hacked, merely the victim (if you so wish to be described) of an incomplete/incompetent maintenance operation. If they'd done their job completely, you only would have noticed downtime or some anomaly in your website's data that you couldn't explain.

Your TOS will have a few lines there in the fine print about equipment failure, unexpected system maintenance and prerogatives of the site administration to make changes because you aren't taking personal responsibility for doing it yourself.

Yes, they should have consulted with you, or in my case, sent an email telling of the imminent failure and what they were doing to keep the site functional, sorry it is what it is. Read your TOS, it won't be described as hacking.

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