More specifically, are we seeing companies breached due to their (obvious?) security flaws, hackers getting better at what they do, or a combination of both?
What is the future of security for these large companies that we put our trust into that our data is safe?
It was always happening and at a large scale, it’s just there are new reporting requirements now, which leads to more nonspecialized publications to cover it more often.
Exactly correct.
And I would say it will happen more frequently.