• FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Hackers didn’t do anything, at&t failed in one of their few roles, security. It’s your fault for being so pathetically shit. These companies seriously need major punishments or being jailed for life. I’m beyond sick of them all and they no fucks given bribe everything mentality.

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      4 months ago

      Hackers in this case likely means someone who can read a url and increment a number and is curious. Which ought to be everyone over the age of about 7.

      Congratulations! Everyone is now a hacker!

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      Companies should be forced to pay thousands of dollars to each customer that gets their data stolen on top of paying for any damages caused by the use of the stolen data. That would put them out of business with a breach this large.

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        4 months ago

        You’ll take your check for $3.27 from the class action lawsuit that settled 4 years ago, and you’ll be happy

      • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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        4 months ago

        They all get cybersecurity insurance to limit/eliminate that risk and pass it down to someone else. Yeah, we’re at a point where companies have accepted it’ll happen and pay for fucking cybersecurity insurance to protect their capital instead of spending that money on actual security.

        Increasing the liability just means the premiums will be passed down to the users, and insurance companies will be rolling in cash. Not like the users would get the settlements anyway.

        And of course there’s the whole problem of disposable LLCs, so even a corporate death penalty would do shit, because our society doesn’t give a shit about people, only capital.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Needs to be a percentage of revenue earned to eliminate the possibility of passing the buck. So… It’s not happening any time soon.

          • Someone who has to pay higher rates because PG&E exec pocketed revenue instead of investing in company infrastructure, killing numerous people across multiple incidents.