What did Linode do?

[coderman]

On 1/6/16, Ryan Carboni <ryacko at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3zlttw/linode_user_credentials_compromised_all_customers/
>
> First under DDOS attack, now being hacked.
>
> What did Linode do?


they hosted high risk instances, apparently. :/

i do appreciate that given a small set of indicators (few compromised
accounts) they acted conservatively and reset ALL accounts. this is a
reassuring behavior, rather than cause for alarm!