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What company has ever been seriously harmed by a security breach?

I'm clearly a bit nihilistic, but I've never seen a case where it matters. If a company leaks the information of millions of people there is, at most, a small financial cost and stock prices keeps going up.



Maybe that's true once companies are too big to fail or avoid. But small companies may face existential risk [0]. Even big companies like Sony can lose a lot of money despite recovering in the long term.

[0] https://www.mastercard.com/us/en/news-and-trends/stories/202...




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