killer_roach wrote on Jun 16, 2011, 11:58:

Creston wrote on Jun 16, 2011, 11:24:

MajorD wrote on Jun 16, 2011, 11:22:
WTF?! Have these type of servers become a fad for hackers as of late? How many ‘game company’ servers is this now; six? You'd think, by now, other companies would have taken necessary steps to protect their servers from these shmucks.

That's not how corporations work. They don't spend money to potentially prevent something that basically wouldn't cause them any damages anyway. They'd rather just put their heads in the sand and hope really hard it won't happen to them. And if it does, oh well, it's not THEIR personal information that gets stolen.

Creston

Or, even on the more optimistic side:
IT person: "All of our competitors' sites are getting hacked! What should we do?
Management: "Write up a list of proposals and present them to the next management meeting next month."

Two weeks later...
Hacker: "..."
IT person: "Oh, goddamnit..."