My docs got dropped in the Stratfor leak

Yes, the security of Stratfor was unacceptably lax, and yes, getting mad is generally a waste of energy, but you can't legitimately compare the criminals who broke into Stratfor and committed credit-card fraud to a five-year-old who's gotten into the cookie jar. They are old enough to take responsibility for and be held accountable for their actions; a five-year-old is not.

Have any of these sites been brought to court for criminal negligence? If CC# are getting dumped, they probably broke a bunch of PCI rules too.

Me too. I'm actually pretty pissed at Stratfor because it's a huge inconvenience.<p>Unfortunately, I used an email address that I use on other sites, so now I have to decide whether or not to create a new email account for everywhere else, which is extremely, extremely annoying. Luckily, I used a separate password for Stratfor (12+ characters).<p>Also, unfortunately, the cc was my main cc number, so that means I have to change EVERYTHING, which is a huge hassle.<p>I guess this means I just have to keep creating throwaway email addresses for every new service that I sign up for, which is turning into a management nightmare.

Why should Lulzsec be held accountable and not the ignorant/arrogant developers of the Stratfor/Mtgox/PS3 sites?<p>Everyone, EVERYONE, should be using something like LastPass, it makes me like MORE convenient than when I used the same password for everything and it's more secure because I have unique passwords everywhere.<p>As for credit card data, my understanding is that there are legal recourses for sites that store that data insecurely. Sadly, no one has taken my idea of an oauth style payments system where stealing a "credit card number" would be entirely meaningless.

who cares, waste of my time to read stuff like this on HN

flagged. blurbs like this are pointless waste of my time, so your email has been revealed, WHO CARES? dont post garbage like this on HN.