Cyberattack risks increase in frequency and danger year on year, yet cybersecurity continues to be left as an afterthought for a lot of people.
We’ve compiled a list of 15 alarming facts and statistics regarding cybercrime. This will hopefully give you a better idea of the online criminals you are dealing with, and the changes you perhaps need to make to secure your business.
- In the UK, the average cost of a security breach is £3,100 for small businesses, £16,100 for medium businesses, and £22,300 for large businesses.
- 91% of data breaches start with email and it takes only one to penetrate your business.
- According to a recent study, businesses in the UK experienced 157,528 attacks between July and September this year, which is an increase of 243 per cent on the same period last year.
- 43% of cyberattacks target small businesses.
- 95% of cybersecurity breaches are due to human error.
- Over 40% of companies have sensitive unprotected data.
- Hackers attack every 39 seconds.
- 95% of breach attacks target government, retail and technology.
- Cybercrime damages will cost £5 trillion worldwide annually by 2021.
- Businesses will fall victim to ransomware attacks every 11 seconds by 2021.
- Digital ad fraud will rise to £34 billion in 2020.
- More than 90% of hacks and data breaches result from phishing scams.
- There are around 24,000 malicious mobile apps blocked every day.
- In 2018 hackers stole half a billion personal records.
- More than £190,000 a day is lost in the UK by victims of cybercrime.
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