[DarthGhandi]

This is true and it's the unstoppable nature of complex systems and the myriad of people responsible for them.

That said, this line from the article is pretty damning, it took them 3 days to lock down that insecure server. For a company that size with all those security employees it looks both lazy and negligent.

> The infosec firm reported the problem to Microsoft on 13 September, and the database was vanished from public view by the Windows giant's security response centre on 16 September.