pg actually did point out that he thought the initial statement was fake, and that maybe someone had hacked multiple channels.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416979

His sin there is having higher expectations of people than are justified by reality, which is hardly the worst thing to be guilty of.

    We're assuming these are fake, and that someone just got hold of their Facebook and Twitter passwords.

pg posted that earlier. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416979

Downvoters, I think the "citation needed" was in reference to SendGrid's firing Adria in response to the DDoS, not to pg's take on the subject.

And he's right; [citation needed] on the DDoS being the motivating factor in her firing, as opposed, say, to her dragging her employer into the internet shitstorm that she started.