KT Lingesh, Bangalore based entrepreneur (founder of LxLabs, a virtualization software company) hanged himself from his house ceiling after he lost a project owing to lack of funds.
Lxlabs is a Windows based virtualization software solution for enterprises. The company has two platform products – HyperVM and Kloxo.
HyperVM is a virtualization management software (used by many hosting companies and manages approximately 300,000 VPS), while Kloxo is a hosting platform that enables the hosting provider to leverage the advantages of both Xen and Openvz.
He sported long hair, usually played the guitar well into the wee hours at his house in Sector 6, HSR Layout and his shoulder tattoo read `God is a F***** Idiot’. – ToI
What’s sad to note is the fact that many of the sites (close to 100,000) hosted by LxLabs’s software’s were destroyed by hackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a widely-used virtualization application.
Little is known about the people who attacked the site. So far, there are no known reports of individuals taking credit for the hack. The breach was likely the result of a SQL injection attack that penetrated Vaserv’s central management software and removed vital binaries and data for about half of all user data stored by the service – source
While the real reasons for his suicide is not yet known, it’s definitely sad to see a news like this.
May Lingesh’s soul rest in peace.
RIP
RIP, Tragic for sure.
I cant help but wonder why we never heard much of Lingesh, such an innovator in our midst.
It is a very sad incident indeed.
May his soul rest in peace.
Very sad to see the news.
-Eshwar
Im deeply saddened by his death, My Thoughts go out to his family and children at this most trying time.
My Organisation uses several LXAdmin/Gloxo and HyperVM across many servers and countries, It begs the question what will happen to LXlabs? Its not a “one man band” Company, so I hope ( and indeed expect ) that work on this outstanding project will continue.
Most of the Gloxo attacks specified on the MilW0rm.com Exploit site require the attacker to have an account. Many of the Holes in the software can easily be addressed by putting simple validation into the input fields within the software.
I have tried many of these exploits on my dev systems and have discovered that many dont work on LXADMIN (pre-Gloxo), and None appear to work on HyperVM itsself from what I can see. Whilst at the time of writing, I dont know of any official response from LXlabs to do with Mr Lingesh’s Death Or the exploits I hope that there will be a response covering the exploits and LXlabs proposed timeframe for a solution.
One thing for sure though… Those of us that use LXlabs software are diminshed by his loss. I hope that the other Commanders of LXlabs now pick up the “torch” and carry its flame to new heights.
-= iBorg =-