[Boogieman]

Well, there are 100 script kiddies out there for every “serious blackhat”, and those script kiddies are often so stupid that they freeze up the machines that they are able to get access to by doing stupid things like setting up ftp servers or email servers on the machines and draining all the system resources.

[FredZarguna]

But those types would never have gotten to the server. The Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans are scanning billions of ports per second 24/7/365. Once they realized what they were into, they'd have taken active measures to freeze the amateurs out. The probability that jay random dumbot hit the server first is vanishingly small.

I've actually seen cases where, once in the knickers, intruders have patched all the exploits, including the one that got them inside in the first place so they could operate without worrying about other hacks.