There are rarely talks about security breaches and problems that
did or could result from those breaches in the public. The
reason for that are simple, it is often embarrassing for the
owner of the compromised account to admit the breach and for the
solution provider to get possible flaws exposed that could
result into a loss in confidence by existing or future clients
into the safety of the clients data that were entrusted to the
provider. The fact is that there is in most cases no reason for
embarrassment, if the account owner and the solution provider
did everything they could to prevent breaches in the security to
the extent that is justifiable and practical considering the
type of data that need to be protected and the possible
consequences for the involved parties if a breach does occur. Of
course are breaches because of disregard of fundamental does and
don’ts embarrassing and not worth to be the subject of a public
debate. I am referring to things like the use of “guessable
passwords”, such as “passwo