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I think you hit the nail on the head with your first sentence. Obviously, companies aren't securing data out of the goodness of their hearts. I'm really not one for adding more laws but it seems to me there needs to be legal repercussions for negligence in regards to customer data. Of course, the issue is far deeper than a merely technical one. The US government isn't exactly known for holding corporations accountable; they much prefer to hold an individual's feet to the fire. So hold the whole damn company accountable. Even I'm not crazy enough to suggest criminal repercussions for negligent managers, after all each company is basically its own government so whos to say which individual is responsible, as you mentioned. So make breaches costly. And I'm not talking fining a multibillion dollar company $100,000. Base the fines on a (sizable) percentage of gross income per data breach. I can't think of any other reasonable way to give a company incentive to invest in security when its not crucial to their own business model.

In regards to things like trade secrets, company information, I agree, it is a calculated risk. But, for companies with customer data (and doubly so for companies storing financial data) they aren't just losing property, they are losing property that really isn't theirs to lose.

Its one thing when physical goods are at stake, but another entirely when private data of customers is at stake. The former is a calculated risk, the latter should be considered sacred. Furthermore its not like you can just automate walking down the street and trying to open every lock, but the same thing can and is easily automated on a computer. Take a look at your firewall logs, chances are you have a fair bit of attempted "break ins" that are just bots scanning an IP range for vulnerabilities. I'd be willing to bet the number of attempted online break-ins absolutely dwarfs the number of attempted physical break ins.