I don't think that's a relevant comparison. You can be sure that when cars, airplanes and industrial plant have available access through internet, they will be powned as well and there will be accidents.
This argument was implied. If they will own your data when you put your HR database on the internet, maybe you shouldn't put your HR database on the internet to begin with. I can't be the only one who feels that computer security is a field that is insufficiently mature, yet people put confidential data on the internet all the time even though the technology isn't ripe yet to do so safely.
Compare this attitude with the extremely conservative approach in rocketry. The technology is positively from the stone age, but everyone agrees that it is well understood. You can't take any other approach when space missions are multi-decade projects and the price tag has nine figures.
Compare this attitude with the extremely conservative approach in rocketry. The technology is positively from the stone age, but everyone agrees that it is well understood. You can't take any other approach when space missions are multi-decade projects and the price tag has nine figures.