Linode hasn't been very forthcoming in the past where security "incidents" are concerned: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-228000-stolen-

Linode hasn't been very forthcoming in the past where security "incidents" are concerned: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-228000-stolen-from-customers-of-hacked-webhost/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-22800... http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8509 http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=8509 I had really hoped that they had changed their stance on incident management. If it's true that they suppressed information about a possible wide-scale compromise where customer data could have been affected, then despite everything else about their service that's so great, there's no way anyone should want to continue to be a customer there. Given Linode's past behavior and the information provided in the IRC chat, I think there's reasonable suspicion that customers' password hashes were stolen and Linode wasn't completely honest in their recent email to customers.