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Isn't that exactly what the bank would tell you if someone stole your personal info from your home and used it to empty your account?
This author is a dumbass.
It seems to me like the biggest problem was that in accessing just 14,000 accounts, they got some amount of personal information of nearly 7 million people. Less "you should have had a better lock on your front door" and more "your neighbor's cousin should have had a better lock on his front door."
And a little of the old "it's really your fault for listening to us when we said you didn't need a better lock because wE tAkE cUsToMeR pRiVaCy VeRy SeRiOuSlY."