H4cked Off: How the hell did the RSA hack cost EMC £40m?

Stuart Sumner
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So what does £40m buy you these days exactly, besides reparations for a major security breach?

Storage company EMC has admitted that the cyber attack on its security division RSA Security has cost it £40m, both in investigating the hack, and in tightening security to make sure it doesn't hap...

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