I dunno, things like this make their way to more mainstream media too, making "the general public" more conscious of security, and making them wonder whether their passwords will be secure at parties they leave them at.
The spin in mainstream media always puts the blame squarely on the hackers, and in my anecdotal experience typical users have no interest in the argument that the companies that were hacked are to blame.
Because most people have not even thought of the possibility that password can be stored in anything but plaintext, and take it as granted that all websites do. Thus the websites can't possibly be blamed, and the hackers must be the bad guys.
