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by aen0 4805 days ago
OVH just confirmed, they were compromised.

http://forum.ovh.com/showthread.php?t=88277 (in french).

Nutshell: - attacker brute forced the unique ID used in the reset URL - they could do it because the unique ID was not random enough - they analysed 3 years worth of logs (still ongoing to 10) and concluded that only 3 clients (all bitcoin related) were affected.