Hello everyone. I started this thread to put a dollar amount to the cost of a company being hacked. Many times script kiddies don't understand how their deeds affect people. Hopefully putting a dollar amount to their actions can open up their eyes a little.


I'm going to post some figures, please follow suit and post the figures as you see them as well.

Each one of the following will cost individuals, companies and governments big time $$, although the dollar amount will vary, acrossed the board the one thing in common is that it's expensive:

Downtime -- Company has ceased to continue bringing in income

Idle Employees -- Workers are sitting around idle, because they can't access their work systems

Laid off Employees (a) -- The company, have it's bottom line affected must lay some employees off to meet financial expectations

Laid off Employees (b) -- Someone's gotta take the ax for allowing the incident to occur in the first place, most likely this is going to be the security personnel or I.T. workers that didn't sufficiently secure the system that got breached.

Laid off Employees (c) -- The laid off employees might be forced to seek unemployment compensation, costing tax payers money (at this point).

Lost Production and Revenue -- The company that got hacked is losing money because they are idle while their competitors are fulfilling orders.


Please add more to this list as you see fit

Thanks,
--PuRe