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by gruez 1414 days ago
>the class actual lawsuit doesn't actually influence Experience etc to do anything because they will always own the market

except as you admitted yourself, they had to pay "hundreds of millions for corporate lawyers." That seems at least somewhat of an incentive to step up security.

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not a terribly significant dent, considering their pre tax profit is in the billions https://www.experianplc.com/media/latest-news/2022/full-year...
Yeah but "hundreds of millions" can buy a lot of cybersecurity consultants. The shoplifting loss from a single store probably doesn't make much of a dent in a S&P 500 retailer's profit either, but they still spend money on loss prevention because it saves money on net.
The cyber security could plausible cost less than the EXPECTED value of the fines. That's the crux of it