That's a rather key assumption. If you don't believe him, then all you have is a trolling (or at least self-aggrandizing) hacker whose credentials consist solely of logging into an IRC channel, refusing to identify who he was working with, and offering no tangible proof of having compromised any CC info.
On the other hand, it's conceivable that if ryan managed to get into the files a customer was hosting on Linode, and that customer was improperly storing CC info, then their customers' info would have been vulnerable, and ryan's claims would be sort of half-true. Even so, that wouldn't directly affect other Linode customers or put liability in Linode's lap.
That's a rather key assumption. If you don't believe him, then all you have is a trolling (or at least self-aggrandizing) hacker whose credentials consist solely of logging into an IRC channel, refusing to identify who he was working with, and offering no tangible proof of having compromised any CC info.
On the other hand, it's conceivable that if ryan managed to get into the files a customer was hosting on Linode, and that customer was improperly storing CC info, then their customers' info would have been vulnerable, and ryan's claims would be sort of half-true. Even so, that wouldn't directly affect other Linode customers or put liability in Linode's lap.