Hacker News Reader

Yeah but the problem with 'things planned for the near future' is that they have a tendency to stay in the future until something like this happens.

Yes, and after the fact, they sound like excuses (even when they are true and they are not meant to be excuses as in this case).

Murphy's extended laws:

* It will go wrong at the worst possible time.

* If there are 4 possible ways for it to go wrong and you prevent all of them, it will go wrong in a 5th way.

Can you give us more details at help.phpfog.com please? (apologies if I'm breaking HN etiquette)

You don't hear about the 99% of the attempts that were successfully foiled by good coding practices/security audits, so given that we are hearing about a security breach at a competent firm, the likelyhood of it being a black swan event is probably fairly high.

You also don't hear about the attempts that were successful and unbeknownst to the hacked service provider.