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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by Jtsummers on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @10:21AM (#7422053)
This doesn't absolve Rogers of responsibility for this, but the incident occurred right as the data center was being acquired. Depending on how far along the transition was (per [1] it doesn't seem like it would have been very far) it could be that this was an issue with Granite Networks' security protocols and not Rogers'.

[1] http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/canadian-telecom-rog...

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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by mikeash on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @10:40AM (#7422159)
Could also be the exact opposite. It's mildly suspicious that this happened so soon after the acquisition. It's probably a coincidence, but it smells at least a little bit like Rogers hooked up their own support system without proper training.
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