Data center and managed services provider Rackspace has confirmed that a server in one of its data centers was part of the major cyber attack on Google's infrastructure in December, an event that has lead the search giant to reconsider its strategy in China and possibly pull out of the country completely.

Rackspace said that as a result of the attack and the company's subsequent actions, no customer data was compromised.

"Rackspace hosts tens of thousands of websites for customers and we take every precaution to make them safe and secure," the company said in its statement. "As a hosting and cloud computing company, we run the servers and operating systems for our customer's websites, but customers run their own applications on those servers.

"Cyber attacks are a common occurrence in today's online world, and we work every day to combat them and make our servers safe for our customers."

The server was disabled immediately upon discovery that it was a target in the attack, according to a Rackspace executive's statement on the company's blog. The provider said it worked together with Google to help the investigation and eliminate effects of the attack.

Google publicized the attack on Tuesday, as it announced that it would seek a legal way to discontinue voluntary censoring of some of the search results returned by Google.cn, the Chinese version of its search engine. The company said it would stop its operations in China completely, if it cannot come to an agreement on the matter with the country's government.

The company said it had evidence that suggested that the attack originated in China and that it targeted Gmail accounts of advocates for human rights in the country.