UK: hacker affected organizations by frequency & type of an outsider attack | Statista

This statistic shows distribution of affected organizations by frequency and type of an outsider attack in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015. From the respondents, 32 percent encountered an outsider attack related to denial of service once in the past year.

Distribution of hacker affected organizations by frequency and type of an outsider attack in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015

Characteristic	One only	A few times	Roughly one a month	Roughly one a week	Roughly one a day	Several a day	Hundreds of times every day
Attack on Internet or telecommunications traffic	57%	25%	6%	6%	0%	7%	4%
Customer impersonated fraudulently (e.g. identity theft)	42%	36%	13%	5%	0%	2%	1%
Denial of service attack	32%	35%	3%	13%	3%	10%	3%
Organisation impersonated in the Internet (e.g. phishing attack)	27%	42%	9%	12%	2%	5%	3%
Actual penetration into the organisation's network	20%	47%	22%	1%	5%	5%	1%

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June 2015

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2015

Number of respondents

368 respondents

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