Credit card numbers are of pretty low value. Like way less than a buck in medium volume and still just a few bucks for the super premium ones. And there is way, way more inventory of them than interested buyers. The likelyhood of a coordinated break in of a large hosting service with the intention of stealing credit cards is pretty low, and the chance that they'd be exploited so quickly is even lower.
Unless the attacker dumped them all (semi) publicly, the more likely explanation is that the breakin caused people to check their accounts and a statistically normal percentage of them showed fraud from another origin. But anybody who sees it will be sure to get online and find others in a similar situation.
Everybody would be doing themselves a big favor if they stopped treating CC info as the #1 scary OMG data theft. The banks programmed you to care because congress made sure they're liable instead of you. Theoretically you might owe $50 due to fraud but practically you never pay a dime. Sure it's a bit of a pain in the ass to get resolved, but it's not worth stressing about until it happens.
I'd be way more concerned if my hoster lost my contact info, ip logs and identity challenge questions & answers.
I contacted Linode support and they've said in clear terms that they have no evidence that payment information of customers was accessed. I initially signed up for Linode because my friends spoke highly of the tech people working at Linode. Right now amidst all the commotions it's ryan's words (some anonymous dude who joined #linode/irc.oftc.net) vs. an established company's. I'm just going to now stop worrying and get back to my work.
Unless the attacker dumped them all (semi) publicly, the more likely explanation is that the breakin caused people to check their accounts and a statistically normal percentage of them showed fraud from another origin. But anybody who sees it will be sure to get online and find others in a similar situation.
Everybody would be doing themselves a big favor if they stopped treating CC info as the #1 scary OMG data theft. The banks programmed you to care because congress made sure they're liable instead of you. Theoretically you might owe $50 due to fraud but practically you never pay a dime. Sure it's a bit of a pain in the ass to get resolved, but it's not worth stressing about until it happens.
I'd be way more concerned if my hoster lost my contact info, ip logs and identity challenge questions & answers.