I don't have the exact dates at hand but if I remember correctly the hacking happened few weeks before they acknowledged it. And the only reason they admitted

I don't have the exact dates at hand but if I remember correctly the hacking happened few weeks before they acknowledged it. And the only reason they admitted it (well at least it looked like that) was because the info had already been leaked through their irc channel[0]. [0]: http://turtle.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/linode/linode-abridged.txt http://turtle.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/linode/linode-abridg...