[miki123211]

Did you actually suffer any negative consequences of these breaches?

I see so many comments about how punishments for data breaches should be increased, but not a single story about quantifiable harm that any of those commenters has suffered from them.

[A4ET8a8uTh0_v2]

It is difficult to read this. On the one hand, for a good chunk of the population that is true and yet, one knows that is absolutely not true to individuals, who will be affected.

Since I do have multiple breaches under my belt, I could offer you an anecdote, but I won't. Do you know why? Because it is not up to me to quantify harm that was done the same way I don't have to explain, to a reasonable person, why doxxing people is not something people should have to suffer through.

I have a personal theory as to why that state persists. The quantifiable harm is small per individual affected, but high across the population and thus underreported. Sadly, the entities that could confirm that are not exactly incentivized to say they are causing harm to begin with..