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by readme 4258 days ago
Also OP, if they don't write it off make sure to tell us all who it was so we can avoid them.

The same thing happened to me with amazon. Amazon pid for it. It's highly unreasonable in my opinion to ask the customer of a VPS to pay for damages caused by a malicious attacker. It's tantamount to a landlord expecting you to pay after an arsonist comes along and burns down your apartment, just because you happened to be renting it at the time.

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May I propose another analogy:

- a landlord* expecting you to pay after a squatter came along and opened a faucet in the basement (where OP rarely goes) to fill its own super tanker

* or the water company ?