Aaaaaaaand, YES, the big corporations skate again!
This is today's life in these United States: the big corporations can do whatever they like to consumers, and they will pay bugger all penalties for it. The MINIMUM they should have gotten is a very large fine and be required to provide credit protection FOR LIFE to every single person whose details were divulged.
Unfortunately penalties for this sort of thing will never happen because today the U.S. is a Government Of the Corporations, By the Corporations and For the Corporations. The people? They're just consumers to be slurped and ripped off any way the corporations like.
Sorry if I sounded a bit cynical there.
</old git>