I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this can't be good.
The guerilla-style hacking disclosure comes eight months after a security researcher publicly disclosed the underlying vulnerability that exposed the hard drives of Jerry and so many other Asus router users. The June 22 report found the "ability to traverse to any external storage plugged in through the USB ports on the back of the router," but researcher Kyle Lovett said he went public only after privately contacting Asus representatives two weeks earlier and getting a response that the reported behavior "was not an issue."