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Well handled.

Agreed. This is in sharp contrast to the Media Temple / Plesk debacle. Which affected how many thousands of sites? How long did it take them to admit it? Meanwhile, Linode reports full details of a hack affecting no more than 8 accounts the SAME day.

It's good the fast acknowledgement, but I find it lacks in detail. I'd love to know exactly what kind of measures are they going to take so the chances of this happening again are truly reduced.

I share a Linode with a friend and at work we deal with 4 so this is a concern.

Further comment is indeed warranted, but that part can come in a few days, when there's more clarity on the scope of the incident and a fully-hashed plan of attack for closing the vulnerability.

I hope so. They said they will be "reviewing our policies and procedures to prevent this from ever recurring."

That doesn't imply they will be posting a public update. As a Linode customer, I would like to know details of how this breach occurred and what actions will be taken to prevent it in the future.

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