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Yeah, that's one of those applications that you really need to colo and secure yourself with outside security verification, or at the very least go with a host that has a reputation for ironclad security. Hosting that kind of thing on a low-cost VPS is ridiculous.

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From what I remember, it was a 17 year old kid who built and ran the site, and it was his first time ever handling financial transactions (there was another bitcoin-related hacking around the same time, so I might be confusing them.) It was a recipe for disaster.

It's incredible how much people are willfully ignoring Linode's gross incompetence in this matter.

Their only gross incompetence was not informing customers in a timely manner, which I could forgive them for. Having a security breach is something that happens to, quite literally, every hosting provider.

I say all this as someone who dropped Linode for DO due to not being able to afford them anymore.

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