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by MattGaiser 2235 days ago
> time-and-time again bites organizations in the ass when there's a breach.

The bite isn't very hard though. The largest data breach of the 21st century in terms of users was Adobe and it cost them just 2 million in legal.

The only painful data breach I can think of financially has been Equifax. Everyone else just sent out a "reset your password" email, paid for a couple lawyers and PR people, and went on with their companies.

Can you name a company killed by a data breach? I can't think of one.