Re: "At least they could go out gracefully and protect the privacy of their customers"
"They will try to beat the horse long after its death and putrefaction."
Why would the horse be dead? Probably a large number of the email address in the data are special one use addresses set up by people for this, so they won't give a damn if they get leaked and will be quite happy to go on using the service. Only idiots would have used their work or home email address and if they're that stupid they'd probably have got caught eventually anyway.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
