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by michaelt 1117 days ago
> 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.