I thought the actual concern was with hackers gaining direct access to servers, then just sshing and moving the funds to themselves, not some convoluted weird Lightning-specific attack. We didn't see any of these hacks (but we did see hundreds of exploits in application code that manage users' balances).
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Yeah true. Maybe we just got lucky that amounts were too small in LN while security was bad, that juicier targets existed while amounts increased, and now there’s pretty good remote signer stuff across different implementations to help mitigate 🤷♂️