This is called Fundamental Attribution Error. As the name suggests it is a foundational part of human social psychology and it has been studied for years.
Personally I'm convinced it is one of the cognitive flaws that are needed to stop us from going teeth-gnashingly insane after ten minutes exposure to reality.
Obviously. But the cognitive mistake is the same. This is not me getting on my soapbox, it is a point of view held by psychologists, it's there in the literature.
Fine, I'll rephrase. If the hosting company took the simplest possible precautions, then this would not have happened. You can't trust people that don't work for you.
Personally I'm convinced it is one of the cognitive flaws that are needed to stop us from going teeth-gnashingly insane after ten minutes exposure to reality.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fundamental_a...
See also: "She should have known what would happen to her, going out at night dressed like that."
No.