If someone broke into my home and rifled my personal papers, and found out secret information, it wouldn’t be tolerated. I could take action against them. They would be guilty of theft.
What bothers me, is that these hackers are more or less thought of as modern day heroes of sorts.
Honestly, I wish there was an agency that could find these guys and put them in a room with no computers for 5 to 10 for this type of activity.
These guys put us all at risk. Breaching these systems is a security risk to individuals. In this instance those individuals are not people I care for. I don’t like their Lifestyle choices. They have made a confidential agreement, and the hackers should leave them alone.
We can’t smile when other people’s private information is revealed, then get up set when our own is. Private information should remain private.
It's more akin to you storing your stuff at a bank safe deposit box and someone steals it.
Even so, for a website that is, at best, a step down from a hard core porn site and expecting them to have great security is not the wisest move but the people that use this particular site are skeevy anyways but still, they don't deserve it.
Now, if your bank's website gets hacked, you are 100% correct, you would be right to scream this from the rooftops and it would probably be actionable but then again, what did Target have to pay out when their site was hacked?
I don't have a problem with that description. Anyone stealing from a bank safe deposit box is recognized as committing a serious crime, and treated accordingly.
I don't object to the site being described in those terms. One could argue less damage is done from simple access to a port site. I don't think it's without negatives by any means, but the other site officially makes cheating possible, as a goal.
To me, a breach is a breach. If I like the site or not, I'm not for it. Banks, government agencies, commercial enterprises..., this is not good. None of it...