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>It has been criticised for not telling customers about the breach when it happened in May.

Really now? This needs to stop, it wasn't ok a decade ago, it wasn't ok when Sony pulled this recently, why would they think it's ok now?

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The tense is weird in that sentence you quoted. If this information came out today, when were they criticized?

Time isn't binary, the fact that something happened "today" doesn't mean that no time has passed between when it happened and now.

I'm making a huge leap based on the title alone, I'm going to assume that they( and I guess others) knew about this and are just not confirming what everyone believed.

Is it illegal to have negligence with security in exposing personally identifying data in USA?

Wouldn't matter if it was, it's a corporation (and a bank) no-one will serve a day. They would just have to pay a small fine (from their billions in profits).

When did I say it's illegal? I said it needs to stop.

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