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lawnchair_larry on April 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

Doubting the claims of a hacker after it's known that they compromised a system is really bad OpSec. Consider everything burned.

thehermit on April 15, 2013 [–]

That's a fair point. I'm speaking more as a judge/jury view on the situation though. I don't think Linode users should panic and run for the hills just yet based off this alone.

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