[petee]

I think you make an important point though - deleted or not, there is no real way to know what's been exposed, and no guarantee that they'll ever admit it; so torch all the data expeditiously, and we'll just have to comb through 'successful' leaks just as always.

Another side is that with their database blanked, that will force more companies to explain their downtime or complete loss of data, rather than quietly secure it again and pretend nothing happened