My Rackspace VPS was compromised, thousands charged, advice?
My Rackspace VPS was compromised and it wasn&#x27;t until today (nearly 2 months later) I find out my dev box and blog server were both compromised.  The first bill is over a thousand dollars and I can&#x27;t afford it.<p>Unfortunately while chatting with customer server, I hit backspace by mistake closing the chat where the rep was telling me my server was compromised rather than shutting it off.  So since it wasn&#x27;t shut off, I didn&#x27;t know they could be shut off (not available option for end-users), and I didn&#x27;t want to keep getting billed (he didn&#x27;t seem very receptive of my concern at that point) - naturally I deleted the 2 VPS servers.  So now I have no idea what happened and the phone rep has filed a ticket with billing.<p>I&#x27;m trying to get my issue resolved, but I&#x27;d also like to know if anyone has some advice?  Right now I seem to be stuck in a very difficult situation.