Comment by threatofrain
7 hours ago
Yes but they obtained this information based on the one-sided courtesy of another party, under a scheme that tried to get as many people to safeguard together.
If the first party to receive this information says, "Wow, of course I must act on this, because customers are on the line," then it makes sense to simply choose who you tell more carefully or not at all.
If you saw customer data was being compromised; financial data, government data, electronic patient records etc, and you had the fix. Would you do nothing?
The alternative isn't "doing nothing". It's raising the issue in the coordination group so that everyone can collectively decide on a new timeline if necessary, and you aren't leaving everyone else hanging out to dry.