Linkous estimates that the incident cost the company a total of $250,000 to $300,000, which includes Sabera's fee, the cost of flying Ed to the West Coast on short notice, the cost of litigation against Ed, the costs associated with hiring a temporary network administrator and a new CIO, and the cost of making all of its software licenses legitimate.

I'm missing the company hiring a new CIO as being relevant to the costs of discovering their sysadmin was a criminal who read too much BOFH?