The costs to Home Depot i would argue are not known.
The danger to a startup in the payments business that gets breached before they open their doors could in fact have a long-lasting effect.
It's nothing more than a temporary nuisance to most people. There aren't any consequences that seriously impacts anyone's life. My friend who is an FDA consultant who gets called when medical device manufacturing lines get shut down would very much disagree with that statement.
The thing about the Adobe breach is that it hurts the ecosystem. Folks who put an email and a password out there that happened to use that same password for a bank or other critical resource are now more vulnerable. And the trick with the Adobe thing is that most of the folks that I surveyed that have emails out there don't remember signing up.
People just don't care. And that is the crux of the problem.
The costs to Home Depot i would argue are not known.
The danger to a startup in the payments business that gets breached before they open their doors could in fact have a long-lasting effect.
It's nothing more than a temporary nuisance to most people. There aren't any consequences that seriously impacts anyone's life. My friend who is an FDA consultant who gets called when medical device manufacturing lines get shut down would very much disagree with that statement.
The thing about the Adobe breach is that it hurts the ecosystem. Folks who put an email and a password out there that happened to use that same password for a bank or other critical resource are now more vulnerable. And the trick with the Adobe thing is that most of the folks that I surveyed that have emails out there don't remember signing up.
People just don't care. And that is the crux of the problem.