It's not cool throw your upstream vendors under the bus.

mrkurt · on Oct 30, 2013

(I am one of the founders of MongoHQ)

Buffer has been exceedingly fair with us, we are fully in favor of them giving customers all the information they have.

JshWright · on Oct 30, 2013

Seems like they're pretty clear that they're still culpable for designing a system that relied on the trust of a 3rd party vendor to protect user data.

They waited until after MongoHQ made their own disclosure, and all evidence (including comments on the post) point to a fairly good working relationship between the two.

I'm sure both parties wish this hadn't happened, but I don't see any bus throwing...

rsynnott · on Oct 30, 2013

Huh? This is pretty normal, I think. When a service has downtime because AWS was having a bad day, say, they normally declare that...