What happened.

On February 19, 2024 penetration testing of two of my servers took place, at 06:39 UTC I found an error on the site 502 Bad Gateway, restarted nginx - nothing changed, restarted mysql - nothing changed, restarted PHP - the site worked. I didn't pay much attention to it, because for 5 years of swimming in money I became very lazy, and continued to ride on a yacht with titsy girls. At 20:47 I found that the site gives a new error 404 Not Found nginx, tried to enter the server through SSH and could not, the password did not fit, as it turned out later all the information on the disks was erased.

Due to my personal negligence and irresponsibility I relaxed and did not update PHP in time, the servers had PHP 8.1.2 version installed, which was successfully penetration tested most likely by this CVE https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2023-3824/ , as a result of which access was gained to the two main servers where this version of PHP was installed.  I realize that it may not have been this CVE, but something else like 0day for PHP, but I can't be 100% sure, because the version installed on my servers was already known to have a known vulnerability, so this is most likely how the victims' admin and chat panel servers and