Sony hack could cost Sony $318 per account!?

[Kantor]

"The Institute claims that the average cost of a data breach in 2010 was $318 per malicious act."

I don't really think every account counts as a malicious act. The whole thing is really one malicious act, isn't it?

Obviously, this won't cost $318 to fix; it will be in the high millions. But there is no way it will cost $24 billion. For that price, they could buy a high-tech mercenary force and have it track down and murder the hackers, and have enough money remaining to change their names and buy comfortable houses on Pacific Islands where they would be worshipped as gods.