Why they do it: RBS Leak Net $9Mill

So the fallout from the RBS breach last Nov. got the coordinator(s) $9 million bucks in just one day. The RBS breach is/was one of the cases PCI detractors like to point towards for failures of the standards and how we currently enforce those standards. In the absence of real consequences, attacks like these are likely to become more common place since the payout is so big.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/atm.html

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