TheMadScientist - 7:38 pm on Nov 1, 2012 (gmt 0)

The more I think about him having the username list, the more I think I would seriously consider buying it from him...

If you do you not only get your list to get in touch with your members, you usually get a first/last name, address, phone number AND get to set a value on the theft, because it's not 'just hacking' if he downloaded information and resold it.

He stole the username list via the hack...

I would definitely talk to an attorney (or someone who can say definitively) here in the states first, but I'm pretty sure if it's over $5000 it bumps it up from a 'slap on the wrist' to a 'major theft', which means I'd give him $5001 (minimum) for the username list to set a hard, defined value on the theft, then go after him while I was getting things back up and running, but I'm not 'super nice' to people who do things like he did and I think it would be pretty funny to 'play him back a bit', so spending some cash to know he's going to be staring at concrete walls is something I wouldn't mind doing...
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[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 9:43 pm (utc) on Nov 1, 2012]