I have to disagree with most every comment I read here. There have been many good strides in data protection laws at least in North America over the last 10 year (PCI compliance for example). Every company I have worked for over the last decade have put a great deal of resources into ensuring the data is protected not only from the outside world but from inside the business as well.

It obviously takes time and nothing will ever be perfect because as our protection gets better hackers get better. That being said, mailboxes and banks can be robbed, you wallet/phone can be stolen and your car/house broken into. You have personal information in all those places and they are less secure and open to more people for theft than most databases.

Time to get back to loving my data :-D.