Re: It would be nice if...
I was just about to post along those same lines, so enjoy a pint on me.
Another amusing trick would have been for the hacker to replace all the phone numbers with those of the C-level execs, all the physical & email address' with those of those same execs, so anyone attempting to use the data invariably ended up harassing the very company that screwed the pooch.
Oh, and then located the back up path, hunted down said backups, & *deleted them all*.
Bastards need to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes...