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It's not necessarily 'deleted', these Script Kitties just replaced some data with more valuable stuff. You can never have enough meows!

But seriously, these guys are doing us a favour. You can bet the affected companies will not expose customer data again.

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> You can bet the affected companies will not expose customer data again.

I hope so, but I seriously doubt that. Having open databases is extreme incompetency.

If this keeps happening weekly, they'll fix it. Maybe there should be a government Agency for Deleting Publicly Exposed Databases that's likely to hit any that you stand up within a week. Also, make having had a publicly exposed database deleted something that is in the public record, and highly prejudicial evidence in civil liability cases.

A Department of Botnet-Suseptible IoT Device Bricking would be useful in the same way.

Didn't Equifax have open customer data back when that attack happened?

The Cat Game is no laughing matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlSjdnAKY4

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