They received a lot of help from the community. The Linux Mint team is recovering from the website attack in February that seriously affected their credibility. The lead developer of the project, Clement Lefebvre explained in great detail everything that happened.
…The team is now working to fix the image of the project and the first step in this process is to inform the users about everything that happened. Nothing was held back, and we now know the entire timeline of the events.
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