The constant small-scale break-ins and attacks, like this one, serve to constantly drive up security on the internet as every tiny new exploit is immediately valuable, and the results are widely publicised. This makes it less likely that a single big attack could have a very large impact.

This is the opposite to what happens when someone builds a damn that can hold back 99% of floods, so people get lazy, then when a top-1% flood comes along it is much more catastrophic than if the damn had never existed.