Why must some people insist on being assholes?
The ones leaving giant databases unsecured? At least they are being taught an important lesson.
1) the cultural and economic forces driving everything online way before that’s anything like a good idea,
2) companies storing more than they need to,
3) the people who left it unsecured (bigco, tech startups, and anything very sensitive),
4) the people stealing data,
5) the people who left it unsecured (Smaller shops that’ve been made to feel they must be online),
[large gap]
20) someone who simply deletes all the insecure data (assuming they didn’t also steal all of it)
Also, do you think that this person or persons would refrain from deleting the data if they had the opportunity, but it qualified as a "good idea" to keep online? I.e. they might review, say, medical records, spend some time thinking to themselves whether it was 'necessary' to be online, and then decide to delete or not delete depending on their judgment?
Blaming the person that hacked you is like blaming the individual rock that sinks your boat when you navigate too close to a rocky shore. The rock may have done 100% of the damage to your boat, but if it hadn't been that rock, it would have been another one.
So I guess problem I'm having is with the equivocation between cause-and-effect responsibility and moral responsibility, which I think was exploited here to indulge in a fun little switcheroo by talking about something they didn't mean.
Are you saying that it's my fault for either picking an insecure provider (T-Mobile, who I absolutely bitched out and told them to put a note on my account to not permit any SIM transfer without me physically being in a store under a camera), or for not staying abreast of the very latest in social-engineering exploits that assholes were using to try to steal bitcoins, and manage my security accordingly?