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A data point - the capital one AWS breach ended up costing $270M[1]. While they weren't destroyed, it wasn't cheap either.

1. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/capital-one-...

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That is peanuts for AWS. The OPs point stands: pretty much no engineer or software company suffered serious consequences over their security practices. The worst was some internet drama and slightly lower *profit*.

Ashley Madison tanked from a data break, and there's an ever growing list of cryptocurrency exchanges that were hacked and ended. It may be that for some businesses a data breach is manageable, but that's not always the case, though more importantly that kind of attitude towards the seriousness of data breaches and vulnerabilities is not wise.

It’s CapitalOne, not AWS, who had the flaw and suffered the loss. (And survived it, as is the main point of the thread.)

probably a fraction of a percent of their net worth

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