It scares me that websites dealing with the amount of money you guys deal with even have the remote consideration of using these types of services (clouds and vps). simply a joke and a very good reveal of the security taken by all these companies.
We've never kept any wallet files or records on Linode. I'm not as technical as the guys that set it up so I don't want to comment on specifics and make an incorrect statement.
That said it was essentially a decoy and it's compromise didn't cost TradeHill anything other than time and if we were still up with our engineers it would have been insignificant. It worked exactly as intended. We were very concerned about these types of attacks and others which is what we looked at when designing it. I'll see someone more qualified on the subject wants to speak but they have moved on to other projects and are no longer working with us.
-Jered