• 'Urgent action' call on cyber-crime
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Hopefully by improving security. There's no way they can stop the attacks themselves.
The only way to stop hacking is by making it difficult in the first place. The vast majority of people who are smart enough to hack a well-protected system are clever enough to see it's a dumb idea in the first place. Most of the blame of hacking falls on the shoulders of the person being hacked, because 99.9% of hackers are just kids that get lucky with an SQL injection or manage to find plain-text passwords. It should really legitimately be a criminal offence to let your passwords or other data leak without adequate hashing and other security measures.
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