A number of thoughts
1) Shouldn't a games company be at least one step ahead of data thieves?
2) Shouldn't a tech company have had the skills to tie down vulnerabilities
3) Shouldn't a high security operation have made sure their stuff was siloed so that no one could ever get to more than a part of it
4) All of the above when a high security computer based games company like EA is concerned
And
5)Isn't the big risk now that the criminals will be selling compromised cheats etc. that also take control of foolish purchasers* PCs
*Not a gamer** ( can never be bothered to struggle past that bit early in the game where the only way forward is to keep trying random things in a series of random sequences until a random combination of objects align to open the secret door in a random location), so I don't get the point of having "cheats". (Other than, I guess, to get past that bit early in the game where the only way forward is to keep trying a.........)
**I also don't enjoy all that killing".