Microsoft hacked... why is no one covering this?

[mantlepiecek]

Kasz216 said:

mantlepiecek said:

Yep they were fined.

It didn't take a month to fix the problem though. It took more than a year to actually catch those who were behind it. As far as service was concerned they could have easily bought it back online after a few hours. They just didn't. Probably because they wanted to take extra steps to secure themselves even more?

Companies get hacked all the time. Maybe sony's security was weak, I don't know about that, but it doesn't need to be in order to be hacked.

Anyways they guys who did it got caught didn't they?

Except you know.. you do know about it.  It was just shown in the message above you.  Companies get hacekd all the time.  Companies DON'T get fined all the time... and DEFINITLY don't get fined the max all the time.  

Only when they've been grossley irresponsible.

 

Saying other people get hacked is analgous to telling your friend "Other people get robbed" when you leave his videogame system in your car, with your drivers side window open in the middle of a bad neighberhood overnight.

That is just in the UK though. And hardly a logical way of measuring whether they were really lax in their security.

(Looking at the various fines ICO has actually handed over, most of them have been because of things like neglect and they haven't targeted computer hacks from what I can see. This is the first occurance. So when you say companies don't get fined all the time....they never have got fined when they are hacked. Only Sony has been and really, Sony did say they were going to fight this.)

In the US they weren't fined. And really, everywhere else in the world, I think.

As far as the last paragraph is concerned, the analogy doesn't apply in my case. Because the Sony hack was something that didn't affect anyone except themeselves. They monitored the credit card frauds after this incident and nothing happend.

Besides a better analogy would be to fine the person who was safeguarding your videogames, when you have actually caught the robbers.