An IT migration corrupted 1.3B customer records
> The paper also suggests a potential change to regulation—making individuals within a company responsible for what goes wrong within that company’s IT systems. “When you personally are liable, and you can be made bankrupt or sent to prison, it changes [the situation] a great deal, including the amount of attention paid to it,” Warren says. “You treat it very seriously, because it’s your personal wealth and your personal liberty at stake.”<p>Being sent to prison for buggy code... that's quite extreme. Are people even fired for buggy code? If we want to get more extreme than firing, how about losing 1 year's compensation in addition to being fired.