According to the Ponemon Institute's study last year, the average cost of a data breach that results from a criminal attack is $318 per compromised record. Even

According to the Ponemon Institute's study last year, the average cost of a data breach that results from a criminal attack is $318 per compromised record. Even if we only count the 2.2 million credit card numbers supposedly stolen, that's ~$700 million. And Sony has already lost over $10 million in revenue due to the outage. All the articles circulating recently have counted all 77 million PSN user accounts in their calculations of the breach's cost, which comes out to $24 billion... lol