BitDefender researcher says this is exactly what he was expecting: more and more companies that keep large amounts of personal/confidential/private data being attacked.
"We believe that fraudsters are corroborating all these information (corporate hacks or leaks), malicious mobile and social network apps into creating profiles of people everywhere in the world, with the purpose of creating better social engineered attacks, and everybody is a possible victim." says Catalin Cosoi from the Online Threats Lab."
And also: "Monitoring a political personality's email (especially a personal one) can lead to a really nice profit for an attacker, no matter if he is just a hacker or a bigger organization is involved. Besides personal information, monitoring the private conversations can lead to blackmail and extortion and/or manipulation of the individual into performing different actions."

It's hard to say why, but there's a myth about Romanian youngsters hacking and stealing credit cards, not to speak about the gypsies that help this myth to spread and gain credibility. I wonder if that belief had anything to do with Romania joining the EU...