Between November 2022 and October 2023, organizations in the education sector worldwide saw around 872 instances of data breaches caused by hacking. The professional industry ranked second, with 603 data breach cases in the measured period. Furthermore, hacking caused 598 data breach incidents in the finance sector.
Worldwide number of data breach incidents caused by hacking from November 2022 to October 2023, by industry
excluding incidents and breaches affecting individuals that cannot be tied to an organizational attribute loss
Supplementary notes
The source adds the following information: "All incidents included in this report were reviewed and converted (if necessary) into the VERIS framework to create a common, anonymous aggregate data set."
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Verizon. (May 1, 2024). Worldwide number of data breach incidents caused by hacking from November 2022 to October 2023, by industry [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 09, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1419277/data-breaches-hacking-by-industry/
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