It's a cornucopia of data breaches

Data breaches are absolutely rampant these days. I mean, it's obvious to me because it's what I do professionally (fix breaches, not cause them...) but it's literally all over the news, all the time. To wit, in Virginia, in one single afternoon:

• A City of Hampton database with more than 100,000 tax records about boat, car and real estate taxpayers was freely accessible on the Internet for weeks more
• Virginia's Bureau of Insurance is advising all insurance agents in the state that their social security number may have been accessible on the bureau's website for a six-week period of time. more

I have to believe we're at the top of an arc here, and that breaches will decrease over time. But, to be honest, listings like this make we wonder if we're seeing the tip of an iceberg. Security is getting worse, or at the very least, the public is just now being notified of how often sensitive data is lost, stolen, and otherwise compromised.