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A data point - the capital one AWS breach ended up costing $270M[1]. While they weren't destroyed, it wasn't cheap either. 1. https://techmonitor.ai/technology

• izacus 3y ago
  That is peanuts for AWS. The OPs point stands: pretty much no engineer or software company suffered serious consequences over their security practices. The worst was some internet drama and slightly lower *profit*.
  • nemo 3y ago
    Ashley Madison tanked from a data break, and there's an ever growing list of cryptocurrency exchanges that were hacked and ended. It may be that for some businesses a data breach is manageable, but that's not always the case, though more importantly that kind of attitude towards the seriousness of data breaches and vulnerabilities is not wise.
  • sokoloff 3y ago
    It’s CapitalOne, not AWS, who had the flaw and suffered the loss. (And survived it, as is the main point of the thread.)
• commandersaki 3y ago
  probably a fraction of a percent of their net worth