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Re:Be likeable or get fired by neffy on Friday April 20, 2018 @11:08AM (#16885369)
("Yeah, I've made millions out of this web service, who cares that I store customer credit card details in plain text").

The European Union. If you have any of their residents in that database, then you have about 3 weeks to fix that...

Re:Be likeable or get fired by coldtea on Friday April 20, 2018 @11:33AM (#16885603)
Unless they don't audit you.

In which case you can continue not to care.

Re:Be likeable or get fired by blowski on Friday April 20, 2018 @12:57PM (#16886441)
From my own experience talking with CEOs, I really think that will continue to be the case. If you're asking them to accept a large concrete loss now to prevent a hypothetical even large loss at some point in the future, they won't care.