Gnizmo said:
Ail said:
A lot of people are acting like this is the biggest hack ever.
It isn't like I posted earlier in this thread.
There have been bigger hacks in the last 5 years that stole more sensitive information ( like 100 million confirmed credit card accounts , some of them with SSN and personall information). This is just the one with the most publicity....
And it every previous case it took weeks if not months for the breach to be discovered and notified to people affected...
The biggest known case is Heartland which affected up to 100 millions credit cards and they are even sure when the breach started to occur...
Heck while you guys are all focusing on this, another huge breach happened less than a month ago at another company.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/03/us-citi-capitalone-data-idUSTRE7321PI20110403
For those interested ( and especially Squilliam which seems not very well informed), here are 11 largest data breach in recent history :
http://wikibon.org/blog/the-11-largest-data-breaches-in-recent-history/
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Two important bits here. You can't cite a news source and then say it didn't get coverage. Doesn't compute. Secondly, just because you are hearing more about it does not mean it wasn't covered. Major news outlets have not given this a ton of coverage from what I have seen. They have barely given it any at all until the Senator filed a suit. The gaming news is covering it more. Give you 3 guesses as to why that is.
You also kill another of your points. You try to claim there was a lack of response similar to Sony's, but then go on to state the hack wasn't discovered. Do you see the link there? You can't report a data leak you don't know about. Unless it is discovered there is no way to inform the public. The fact that it wasn't discovered in other cases is big news on its own, but linked to the other info as you have it all it does is invalidate more of your response.
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So you don't understand the word most now either?
