[ghusto]

I'm seeing a lot of these kinds of comments, and think this might just be an American worry (because it's such a litigious place)?

People in the Netherlands and England where I also lived for a short while, are pretty chill with these kinds of things. I can't imagine them doing anything other than thanking you profusely.

I mention this because I'd rather this kind of attitude wasn't imported to Europe.

[laweijfmvo]

For me it's a Google worry. I'd be terrified they'd delete my Google (Gmail) account with no way to recover.

[secondcoming]

I’m not American and live in the UK.

Lawyers aren’t chill about anything, and it could be financially ruinous to try find out.

[yesco]

I was under the impression that the key concern here is being criminally prosecuted, not sued. Even if they obviously didn't do this on purpose, depending on how they communicate it to the companies involved, the worse case scenario is that it could be perceived as some kind of phishing attack / fakeout done with malicious intent. Even if they could prove their innocence, no one wants to deal with something scary like that in court.

While I'm not familiar with the nuances of each European nation's computer fraud laws regarding this, I can't imagine this would be any different there. Especially as Cybersecurity becomes an increasingly international concern.

[michaelt]

> People in the Netherlands and England where I also lived for a short while, are pretty chill with these kinds of things.

Imagine that, at 5pm on Friday, you discover your IT system has been the target of a huge hack, possibly by russians or north koreans, that they got access to everything, it's been going on for months, and it's certainly a notifiable breach under GDPR.

Would you be chill?

I can say from experience, many people call the cops and lawyers first, and only find the support ticket that first-level support fobbed off with a canned response much later.