The company I work for has a market cap roughly 5x that of goDaddy and we're responsible for network connected security systems that potentially control whether a person can physically access your home, school, or business. We were never notified of this until this HN thread.
If your BofA account gets hacked you lose money. If your GoDaddy account gets hacked you lose your domain. If Walmart gets hacked they lose... What money and have logistics issues for a while?
Thankfully my company's products have additional safeguards and this isn't a breach for us. But what if it was? Our customers can literally lose their lives if someone cracks the security and finds a way to remotely open all the locks in their home or business.
Don't tell me that some search engine profits or someone's emails history is "more valuable" than 2000 schoolchildren's lives.
How about you give copies of the keys to your apartment and a card containing your address to 50 random people on the streets and see if you still feel that having your Gmail account hacked is more valuable.
