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by waihtis 692 days ago
Regulations are a big reason why this happened, sure, but also it hit the companies with great security budgets more.

Hospitals, for instance, weren't that widely affected as they barely have any money to buy security tooling.

Silver linings and all that, I guess.

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> Hospitals

Everybody seems to be quick to forget about WannaCry.

Wannacry was not an accident. It was inarguably an intentional attach against general IT infrastructure instead of a borked update.
That really just proves my point.