I&#x27;m curious what kind of losses you&#x27;ve seen since your own data breach. I&#x27;m sorry but you have far too many plausible ulterior motives for taking the position that you are taking.<p>1) As someone else pointed out, you&#x27;re an ex-employee of Linode. You went out of your way to hide this fact. I&#x27;ll refrain from listing all of the very obvious reasons why your word on Linode should be taken with a grain of salt at the very least.<p>2) Being able to blame Linode for your own data breach is a fantastically easy (although lazy) way to pacify customers about the fact that their personal data was just pilfered by someone on your watch.<p>All that being said, what have you presented that can be proven? All that can be proven is that you&#x27;re an ex Linode employee. Everything else is hot air that we&#x27;re all meant to take your word. Tons of appeal to authority in your explanations. You keep invoking some mysterious third party &quot;expert&quot; security group who conveniently agrees with everything your own company &quot;discovered.&quot; If you were actually confident in your own abilities and that of your team members, there wouldn&#x27;t be an immediate appeal following every attempted assertion.<p>Plus, even if you really did hire someone, what company isn&#x27;t going to just say &quot;yes&quot; and agree to whatever PR campaign their customer is saying while dumping wheelbarrows of cash into their pockets? Frankly I don&#x27;t believe you, and I find your consistent drumming against Linode to be highly suspicious in the wake of these attacks. You&#x27;re not involved, are you?<p>The Linode post you&#x27;re referring to is just saying that they expired everyone&#x27;s passwords. That&#x27;s not admitting anything, especially not admitting anything about a separate incident from a year ago. What lawyer would ever take this and say &quot;okay, you can legally publicly blame linode now?&quot; No lawyer worth his salt. In other words, you&#x27;re full of shit. Your story if full of holes, tells, and I think you should stop posting so much garbage before you&#x27;re on the receiving end of a lawsuit or are considered a suspect.