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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by natdempk on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:08AM (#7422369)
The best part was that they offered them a credit on their account as compensation. As if they would want to continue their business with a hosting company that allows unauthenticated users to issue commands to their technicians.
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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by mikeash on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:02PM (#7422701)
I wonder just how much time they'd get from $100,000 in hosting credit.
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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by natdempk on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:05PM (#7422718)
> Grant said the credit was nowhere near sufficient to cover the company’s loss and as a result his firm is contemplating legal action.

I doubt it was $100,000 in hosting credit. Probably a free year or two or something relatively meaningless.

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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by mikeash on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:23PM (#7422832)
No doubt, but it's amusing to imagine.
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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by lhgaghl on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:12PM (#7423284)
This is Rogers you're talking about. The sell you a shitty expensive connection capped at 60GB, and then they hijack your DNS failures to resolve to their shitty ads page, and throttle your traffic depending on the protocol. If you drive down the street in my city you see wireless access points named "Rogers Sucks Ass".
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