In a survey of U.S. adults carried out in 2021, just over 40 percent of respondents said they had been negatively impacted by a privacy breach at some point. Of these, seven percent had been impacted in the past month. Another 40 percent of respondents to the survey said they had never been impacted by a privacy breach, and 17 percent were not sure.
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Measure Protocol. (March 25, 2021). Have you ever been negatively impacted by a privacy breach? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 18, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228388/adults-impacted-by-a-privacy-breach-us/
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Measure Protocol. (2021). Have you ever been negatively impacted by a privacy breach?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 18, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228388/adults-impacted-by-a-privacy-breach-us/
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