Target saw sales fall after its breach became public.

It’s a sign of the times: High-visibility data breaches at online and bricks-and-mortar retailers have consumers convinced, perhaps rightly, that their credit and debit cards are more at risk than other things that are more important — health, for instance, or retirement savings. So those little plastic cards in their wallets give them more nightmares than just about anything else. 

A Honeywell consumer trust survey reveals that trust has become a huge issue after major hacks at retailers such Target, Neiman Marcus and Michaels resulted in millions of consumers affected. And consumers don’t believe that it won’t happen again; 60 percent say such events will increase over the next year.

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