Originally Posted by
SonTech
Sometimes I look at these fines and think 'What next someone getting fined because there house got broken in to? '
If a company is negligent on a gross scale then fair enough but nothing would stop a determined hacker, they would see it as a challenge.
With regards to a properly secured service, a determined hacker would almost certainly be attacking to cause malicious damage for personal reasons or bring a company into disrepute. From what little I have read, that doesn’t appear the case here.
This is a simple case of stealing customers credit card and personal details for criminal, financial gain with limited effort. In this case, using thebigben’s analogy, if BA had even latched the windows and had a few CCTV cameras it might have made the criminals think again and pick an easier target.