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Re:Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information by CaptSpify on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:16PM (#15197427)
Isn't the traditional capitalistic argument that the people on top are the ones taking all the risk, which is why they should be making all of that money in the first place?

Note that I'm not making that argument, but trying to understand how this situation differs.

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Re:Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information by dx034 on Friday September 08, 2017 @06:38AM (#15199201)
You take a lot of the risk but not all. If this was due to weaknesses in their IT then managers should be liable. But it's possible that they had one of the most secure systems in finance and still someone found a way in via undisclosed exploits. In that case there's nothing a manager could've done.

But since the core database wasn't hacked, it seems likely that someone had a database dump on a development machine which was outside the scope..

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