it's now sounding like it may not have been lnd'd fault and may have been a pwned server instead.
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To be honest that sounds more reasonable. We like to joke about LND being buggy, we’ve had nodes unable to boot up, and all that. But a draining channels bug is catastrophic and unprecedented as far as I remember.
for sure. if true, it just shows how easy it is to freak people out and create fud