Unfortunate this happened, but glad to see a fix was pushed out quickly.
I think that guy did us a big favor, much bigger than a guy with zombie nodes. Someone should start collecting a reward for him and (
after I make sure he is really the owner of that account) pay him.
There is a need for a special donation fund for future bugs too.
Except maybe pay to those only who don't interrupt everything, but warn before that and post some proof of concept.