What's the lesson here exactly? Lets say they spent the time redoing the passwords, would Ashley Madison be better off right now? This is a pimple on a elepha

What's the lesson here exactly? Lets say they spent the time redoing the passwords, would Ashley Madison be better off right now? This is a pimple on a elephant. And once you've killed the elephant it's kinda easy to find pimples. If anything this would have been a distraction from the real issues of however they actually got hacked. You might see it as a sign that they had bad security, but in hindsight it's all to easy to find signs.