Baalzamon said:
Have you seriously still not read the article? "The Institute claims that the average cost of a data breach in 2010 was $318 per malicious act." (Can you see it now?). The average cost of a data breach in 2010 was $318 per malicious act. That is what this institute came up with. Based on this average cost from 2010, they are then taking the total number of psn users, 70,000,000, and multiplying by what the average cost per each of those users would be, or $318. You then get $22.26 billion. |
yea i missed that earlier, but still doesn't change fact.
this malicious act average is taken by looking at similart things. Lets say master card had this problem and use same figures as ps3. There are 70 million master card holders. We can all agree that these are ALL legit accounts and not duplicates, or fake names, ect right?
Now what does master card do? Do they go through each individual account and fix it? hell no, they work on teh problem as one big whole. It costs them 22.26 billion dollars to fix the problem. It did not cost them 318 per account, it cost them total 22.26 billion dollars. that 318 is a bullshit number you get by dividing by # of accounts. It means nothing.
That 318 is just some average bs number gotten from lookikng at all the costs in the year dealing with this stuff and dividing by # accounts. It means nothing. Its just a rough way of guessing how much a situation like this will cost the company.
This could end up costing sony a couple billion, or up to 50 billion who knows. BUT the fact that half of those 70 million accounts are fake or not means absoultely NOTHING.
