[shadowprofile77]

I would argue that if anything, in our current world of privacy and anonymity-indifferent lawyers, regulators, policy makers, corporate heads and most members of the general public, things like this and the hackers behind them perform a sort of obscene public service in a way: They make everyone at least somewhat leery about trends towards so much of our private lives falling into too many databases, especially when said data is highly personal, financial, medical or location-based (and thus especially compromising in certain contexts)

The reason why? While lawmakers, politicians and corporate heads couldn't give less of a shit about the average joe's privacy, they know that it's increasingly difficult even for them and their own families to stay private from too-pervasive, intrusive data collection, and they also now see ever more often just how near impossible it is to make said data stay secure from mass public leaks. Oops... Their own "optimization" obsessed nosiness maybe biting them back bit by bit.

It would be perversely amusing to see the head of some bullshit ad tracking firm, or bottom-feeding user data reseller, or the head of a snooping social network have their own dirty laundry leaked all over the web for all to see.