A U.K. Yahoo account was worth NINE TIMES that of one in the U.S.

“Britain’s data watchdog said on Tuesday it fined Yahoo UK Services Ltd 250,000 pounds for a cyber-attack in November 2014.”
–Reuters, June 12, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-uk-ico/britain-fines-yahoo-uk-services-250000-pounds-for-2014-hack-idUSKBN1J81TS

So the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined Yahoo’s U.K. branch 250,000 GBP (about US $334,300) for the security breach in 2014 that affected 515,121 U.K. accounts.

That amounts to about 48.5 pence each, or US 64.8 cents.

Which means that a Yahoo account in the U.K. was worth NINE TIMES that of one in the U.S.

As you recall, the SEC fined Yahoo $35,000,000 for the data breach that affected 500,000,000 U.S. accounts, which comes down to about 7 cents each.

What do you think? Why was the U.K. fine so much higher, on a per account basis? You can send a response, see Contact here.

The illustration Ukifune (1845) is by Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). He is considered the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre (“pictures of the floating world”)

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