<story><title>Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked</title><url>http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&amp;type=submission&amp;id=2603667</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robomartin</author><text>How about you guys cool it and stop organizing a lynching mob devoid of any real data?  It&apos;s embarrassing.  HN is supposed to be populated with lots of very smart, data-driven analytical folks.  Yet, every time something like this happens out of the woodwork come people who would ran you and your children down in the event of an emergency rather than turn around, carefully evaluate the situation, and help you.  Don&apos;t be a moron. Stop it.  For all you know there&apos;s a serious law enforcement effort under way that prevents Linode from talking.&lt;p&gt;For the record, I am a Linode customer and just got a new server to migrate a couple of sites into.  My plans have not been altered at all by this.  I have no data to suggest I should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Legion</author><text>I am a customer too, and I wield no torch or pitchfork, but I grow increasingly frustrated at the lack of response from Linode.&lt;p&gt;I understand your point about the idea that they may be unable to speak to the issue due to law enforcement efforts, but for the moment, acknowledgement would be satisfactory. I would be happy with, &quot;We&apos;re aware of the rumors regarding the intrusion at Linode this past week. We are working with law enforcement and cannot comment on details at this time. However, we will provide a full postmortem once we are able to do so.&quot;&lt;p&gt;The problem is when the explanation &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; comes. It&apos;s OK if it&apos;s not this second, but tell us it&apos;s coming, and then follow through. Complete silence is frustrating.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked</title><url>http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&amp;type=submission&amp;id=2603667</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robomartin</author><text>How about you guys cool it and stop organizing a lynching mob devoid of any real data?  It&apos;s embarrassing.  HN is supposed to be populated with lots of very smart, data-driven analytical folks.  Yet, every time something like this happens out of the woodwork come people who would ran you and your children down in the event of an emergency rather than turn around, carefully evaluate the situation, and help you.  Don&apos;t be a moron. Stop it.  For all you know there&apos;s a serious law enforcement effort under way that prevents Linode from talking.&lt;p&gt;For the record, I am a Linode customer and just got a new server to migrate a couple of sites into.  My plans have not been altered at all by this.  I have no data to suggest I should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anon808</author><text>Mob-mentality. Unfortunately naturally occurs whenever a group gets to be about the size of a mob.</text></comment>