I don't think the two compare that closely. Generally, if you get robbed (in the UK at least) then people are looking for high-value, easily-fenced items that

I don't think the two compare that closely. Generally, if you get robbed (in the UK at least) then people are looking for high-value, easily-fenced items that they can sell off, and that's it. I live in a borderline rough area of a decent town, and have been burgled - my neighbours more than once, so alas speak from experience and from what the Police have told me. They don't tend to go upstairs and nick your diary or your list of passwords, etc. Being robbed in the virtual world can be much worse - while there may be no physical loss in many cases, having your identity truly stolen and the losses you get from it can devastate your life for years to come - spending a lot of time dealing with issues which the robbers created, such as poor credit, etc. And these attacks can come from anywhere in the world. You need to be physically present to be a burglar. To ream someone via an IoT security flaw, you can be anywhere. And given some of the "how did they miss that" security flaws in many such devices, it's leaving people wide open to all sorts of new attacks. Plus there's also the parallel of people defecating in the houses they've robbed - it's a piece of cake to delete someone's photos, videos and backups, leaving them completely bereft of something that has no monetary value, but which has an immense sentimental one.