To think we should stop pretending that Internet Security is a thing?

Once any information has left your possession, then it's best to consider it compromised and act accordingly. So don't reuse passwords, and make passwords as random as possible (see image).

Setup 2FA everywhere you possibly can. Ideally with an authenticator app.

Never divulge any details to anyone who calls you.

Trust your browsers little padlock for secure connections.

Don't use public WiFi without a VPN

That should put you into the top 20% of difficult to hack users. Unless you are phenomenally wealthy and worthy of a targeted attack. (And if you are then why aren't you paying for proper security you tightwad ?)

No, Ticketmaster’s system was hacked, that is ONE hack.

As a result of the ONE hack on ONE system, the account info of up to 550million users was leaked.

They didn’t “hack” each account.

I'd hate to have to go back to travelling into town to pay in a cheque, or taking insecure cash out of the bank to carry around with me risking losing it or having it stolen. I love that I can order things on my phone and have them arrive tomorrow, instead of writing them down on a list and having to travel somewhere when I get the opportunity, which probably won't be before the weekend at best.

Just don't do it on the cheap. It's very simple.

Almost all public companies view IT security as a nuisance and cost. Something to be bought down to £0 wherever possible.

The internet isn’t broken.
Hacks are widely publicised because companies are required to notify everyone whose data may be compromised.
In any one day, hundreds of millions of systems are not hacked.
Tens of millions will successfully foil a hack.

You are dead wrong, of course security is possible on the internet. It’s not easy and there are always some risks. But sloppy practice by many organisations doesn’t mean it’s not possible to manage security.

This is going to be a tired set of arguments on here, because most replies will fail to acknowledge the one thing which drives all this behaviour -

Convenience.

If people refused to use these tools or adopt them because of the inherent risk that every so often, a server or a system will be hacked, then we would be happily in the 90s again.

However most people are willing to enjoy the convenience of online tools, and so happily concede their personal data and all the aggregated information in one place, on the basis of convenience.

When you have to type in your email address to verify your banking for example, that is behavioural biometrics. To be secure systems need 3 factors - something you have (eg phone), something you know (password or pin) and something you are (eg Touch ID, retina, fingerprint). So yeah to be secure you need all that shit. Multi factor authentication. But internet security is certainly indeed a thing and very possible.