In 2022, almost one in four organizations worldwide experienced a compromise of at least one account. A December 2022 research of companies from around the globe found that 74 percent of surveyed companies did not experience any account compromise incidents in the preceding 12 months.
Share of organizations worldwide experiencing account takeover incidents in 2022
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The source adds the following information: "This report presents proprietary spear-phishing data and analysis from Barracuda researchers, drawing on a dataset that comprises 50 billion emails across 3.5 million mailboxes, including nearly 30 million
spear-phishing emails."
Survey participant organizations were from the U.S., Australia, India, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
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Barracuda Networks. (May 24, 2023). Share of organizations worldwide experiencing account takeover incidents in 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 20, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1405971/companies-account-compromise-worldwide/
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Barracuda Networks. (2023). Share of organizations worldwide experiencing account takeover incidents in 2022. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 20, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1405971/companies-account-compromise-worldwide/
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