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From what I remember, it was a 17 year old kid who built and ran the site, and it was his first time ever handling financial transactions (there was another bit
by ceol 13y ago
From what I remember, it was a 17 year old kid who built and ran the site, and it was his first time ever handling financial transactions (there was another bitcoin-related hacking around the same time, so I might be confusing them.) It was a recipe for disaster.
- sillysaurus 13y agoIt's incredible how much people are willfully ignoring Linode's gross incompetence in this matter.
- ceol 13y agoTheir only gross incompetence was not informing customers in a timely manner, which I could forgive them for. Having a security breach is something that happens to, quite literally, every hosting provider. I say all this as someone who dropped Linode for DO due to not being able to afford them anymore.