Nobody cares whether it could be worse, the point is that it must be better[1].<p>The data leaked is enough to gain access to almost a hundred million people&#x27;s account on any web-service or, as some other comment pointed out, in Mexico&#x27;s case even to real-life services like banking.<p>[1] The United States are <i>not</i> the norm. You might live there, but that makes you a <i>minority</i> of the world population. There are some nations that actually value democracy and privacy, not just on paper.