All right, I see: 1) People asking this question are eBay shareholders who are interested to learn if the company they own will be prosecuted by UK government

All right, I see: 1) People asking this question are eBay shareholders who are interested to learn if the company they own will be prosecuted by UK government for storing passwords insecurely; the fact of which was discovered after the leak of 145 million user records. or 2) People asking this question are potential plaintiffs wanting to know if they should sue eBay for storing their password without hashing it with some hash function defined by law as secure.