Global data breaches caused by malware 2021-2022, by industry

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Oct 19, 2023
Between November 2021 and October 2022, organizations in the professional sector worldwide saw around 250 instances of data breaches caused by malware attacks. Public administration ranked second, with 210 data breach cases in the measured period. Furthermore, malware caused 107 data breach incidents in the healthcare sector.

Worldwide number of data breach incidents caused by malware from November 2021 to October 2022, by industry

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Release date

June 2023

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2022

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excluding incidents and breaches affecting individuals that cannot be tied to an organizational attribute loss

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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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