<i>The breach was "very sophisticated", said Detective Menard from the technological crime unit of Toronto Police.</i><p>Bets on whether the "sophisticated" attack turned out to be a run-of-the-mill employee phishing e-mail or a brute force attack on an unsecured server with root login?
I am no lawyer, however I suspect we have a few on this site.<p>Does a suicide potentially move this from willful civil negligence into the realm of criminal negligence? Nonfeasance?
Even if they aren't directly related, I hope some people will at least take pause about the spread and analysis of people's private, leaked information. Sure they're kinda scummy but it is their private lives.
That is quite some money they're offering for a hack that didn't happen. Or did they acknowledge in the meantime, I haven't really followed these news.