• HobbitFoot
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    25 days ago

    Has any data breach ever significantly hurt a company financially?

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      25 days ago

      Hard to say, for sure, in each case. There’s often plenty of factors that could have been key. Fuck-ups tend to fuck up in a variety of interesting ways.

      An obvious seeming one is Roomba’s infamous leaked person-on-toilet picture. I didn’t stop buying Roomba because I doubted their engineering. It was their (lack of a) Privacy team.