Originally Posted by
b1lanc
The only thing in the general poplulace favor now is that there is such a glut of credit/bank card data on the black market, that the price is so low and the odds of your account being taken advantage of is now in your favor. Sad.
From the attacker's perspective, the outcome of the BA hack is a total failure. Most of the cards they were able to get details on have or will be cancelled and reissued. If BA had not gone public with it (some companies prefer to try to cover up this kind of incidents), or if the attackers had removed the malicious script earlier then the stole card details would remain valid for a longer period of time.