Smith pointed to the nonstop cyberattacks. Data breaches had become so commonplace that we now accepted them as our way of life. Hardly a news cycle went by when we did not hear of some new hack. We were all inured to what happened next: an offer of a year’s worth of free credit monitoring, a weak public apology from a CEO. If the breach was really terrible, he or she might get fired; but more often than not, after a temporary dip in stock price, we all moved on.
