American Cybersecurity article by Pew Research Center

We care but don’t really care to do that much about it?“Many Americans expect that the coming five years will see significant cyberattacks on the country’s public infrastructure and financial systems. Fully 70% of Americans expect that the United States will definitely (18%) or probably (51%) experience a significant cyberattack on its public infrastructure (such as air traffic control systems or power grids).”
Men generally think about major cyberattacks is forthcoming on infrastructure/financial systems than woman but”Americans’ views on this subject do not differ substantially across demographic groups”.

Common “fear they have lost control of their personal information…many worry whether government agencies and major corporations can protect the customer data” perhaps due to “majority of Americans have directly experienced some form of data theft or fraud”.  However,
“many Americans are failing to follow digital security best practices in their own personal lives”.
64% have personally experienced major data breach and 49% feel personal info is less secure than 5 years ago but “despite their concerns and experiences, most Americans do not express profound worries about cybersecurity in their personal lives or in their expectations for various public institutions”.

Some Status from the study:

• 41% of Americans have encountered fraudulent charges on their credit cards
• 35% have received notices that some type of sensitive information (like an account number) had been compromised
• 16% say that someone has taken over their email accounts, and 13% say someone has taken over one of their social media accounts
• 15% have received notices that their Social Security number had been compromised
• 14% say that someone has attempted to take out loans or lines of credit in their name
• 6% say that someone has impersonated them in order to file fraudulent tax returns

All told, 64% of Americans maintain at least one of the online accounts listed above. College graduates and those with higher household incomes are especially likely to report having all four types of online accounts:

• 55% of Americans report having an online account with banks or other financial service providers.
• 36% have an online account with household utility providers.
• 32% have an online account with their healthcare providers.
• 39% have some other kind of online account that involves bill payments or transactions.

Regarding our infamous topic - Passwords:

• 41% of online adults have shared the password to one of their online accounts with a friend or family member
• 39% say that they use the same (or very similar) passwords for many of their online accounts
• 25% admit that they often use passwords that are less secure than they’d like, because simpler passwords are easier to remember than more complex ones
• Topic of encryption – national divide:
• 46% believe that the government should be able to access encrypted communications when investigating crimes (often Republicans), while 44% believe that technology companies should be able to use encryption tools that are unbreakable even to law enforcement (typically Democrats and younger adults)
• 52% of online adults have used two-factor authentication on their online accounts – but a substantial minority use similar passwords across many sites or share passwords with others

Trust in key institutions to protect data is also divided.  Ages over 50, express less protection (58%) (and are likely to use the same passwords) while under 50 (24%) say data more secure than 5 years ago “(and are also like to share passwords) But even so, a plurality of 18- to 49-year-olds (41%) feel their data are less secure now than in recent years.”
Maybe a topic of similarity between the ages is “More than one-quarter of smartphone owners do not use a screen lock, and many fail to regularly update the apps or operating system on their phones”
Also, on public Wi-Fi, 66% use it but only few 20% use it for bank/shopping transaction.

Exhaustive/Comprehensive details on: http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/01/26/americans-and-cybersecurity/