UK businesses: impact of cyber security breaches 2022

A survey conducted in the United Kingdom (UK) between October 2021 and January 2022, found that for 25 percent of the surveyed businesses that experienced data breaches, they resulted in new measures needed for future attacks. The survey participants were businesses in the United Kingdom, that have had certain outcomes after experiencing a cyber security breach or attack in the last twelve months. Another share of 22 percent of the surveyed businesses said that they added staff time to deal with the breach or inform others.

Have the breaches or attacks experienced in the last 12 months impacted your organization in any of the following ways, or not?

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Release date

March 2022

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

October 16, 2021 to January 21, 2022

Number of respondents

1,243 respondents

Special properties

among UK businesses that identified a breach or attack in the last 12 months

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Survey respondents are 1,243 UK businesses; 696 micro firms, 264 small firms, 149 medium firms, and 134 large firms.
For businesses, analysis by size splits the population into micro businesses (1 to 9 employees), small businesses (10 to 49 employees), medium businesses (50 to 249 employees), and large businesses (250 employees or more).
We undertook a random probability telephone survey of 1,243 UK businesses, 424 UK registered charities, and 420 education institutions from 16 October 2021 to 21 January 2022.
We carried out 35 in-depth interviews between December 2021 and January 2022, to gain further qualitative insights from some of the organizations that answered the survey. Sole traders and public-sector organizations were outside the scope of the survey. In addition, businesses with no IT capacity or online presence were deemed ineligible. These exclusions are consistent with previous years, and the survey is considered comparable across years."

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