What should be interesting is to see that now the company(s?) producing them must now about this new interest in the details of their devices whether they have contacted all their clients today to warn them of potential issues.
I'm going to go with "no". Companies that admit their failings to their customers are probably pretty rare, particularly "companies that will fail to attempt to secure their computer systems but will actively engage their customers when an issue becomes the focus of unwanted attention" must be close to zero in number.
Agreed, but I would not actually be surprised if they did not learn anything yet. The embedded hardware world is not quite as well connected in that sense as the web start-up scene. It could take a few days before the circle of the people that know about this and the circle of the people involved in that company intersect.
Which makes me wonder, is network traffic profiling common. Like, will the local network admins be getting alerts for traffic spikes on port 23 (SNORT and the like do this sort of intrusion detection I think?)?
I'm going to go with "no". Companies that admit their failings to their customers are probably pretty rare, particularly "companies that will fail to attempt to secure their computer systems but will actively engage their customers when an issue becomes the focus of unwanted attention" must be close to zero in number.