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Their data was exposed by breaching a third party service. I'm not sure how investing more in security could have helped prevent this.

You could argue that they shouldn't be housing this data with Snowflake but then you could say the same about a service like Amazon S3.

At what point is a company able to rely on a third-party vs being expected to run it in-house?

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You're right, but nobody here cares about the details of data subprocessors and how a lot of nodes in the chain get impacted. It doesn't play well on the internet where short & pithy moral outrage is the level of discourse.

It makes me sad that the initial reaction is gleeful & mean-spirited towards the targets, when if you've ever been involved in something like this you'd hope it would be empathy for what a lot of Snowflake and TM employees are working on this weekend, and anger towards the hackers. It's like people forget that because it's data and the targets are big companies these criminals aren't stealing from real people and making the world a worse place.

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