Cyber crime incidents by industry and organization size 2021

Between November 2020 and October 2021, there were almost 24 thousand cyber security incidents worldwide. from this total, 2,065 incidents were detected in small companies. The professional and public administration sectors were the most targeted with 3,566 and 2,792 reported incidents respectively.

Global number of cyber security incidents from November 2020 to October 2021, by industry and organization size

Characteristic	Total	Small	Large	Unknown
Total	23,896	2,065	636	27,351
Accomodation	156	2	1	153
Administrative	39	5	7	27
Agriculture	243	1	1	241
Construction	127	21	7	99
Education	1,241	112	48	1,081
Entertainment	215	12	5	198
Finance	2,527	103	50	2,374
Healthcare	849	36	14	799
Information	2,561	59	25	2,477
Management	8	1	2	5
Manufacturing	2,337	168	74	2,095
Mining	231	0	0	231
Other Services	180	16	1	163
Professional	3,566	1,095	144	2,327
Public administration	2,792	110	88	2,594
Real Estate	118	31	5	82
Retail	629	157	68	404
Wholesale trade	166	79	33	241
Transportation	305	26	38	138
Utilities	172	20	14	54
Unknown	5,434	11	11	5,412

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Release date

May 2022

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Worldwide

Survey time period

November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2021

Supplementary notes

According to the source: "Small organizations are those with less than 1,000 employees, and large organizations have more than 1,000 employees
"Unknown" is equivalent to "Unmeasured"

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