The business logic has to live somewhere, and triggers and stored procedures are just not the right place to do it. Plus these guys apparently got majorly pwne

The business logic has to live somewhere, and triggers and stored procedures are just not the right place to do it. Plus these guys apparently got majorly pwned. I don't think any particular blend of stack was to blame, more likely they have a lord-of-the-flies driven technology "architecture" and simply hoped nothing bad ever happened.