Between November 2022 and October 2023, organizations in the professional sector worldwide saw around 429 instances of data breaches caused by malware attacks. Public administration ranked second, with 292 data breach cases in the measured period. Furthermore, malware caused 165 data breach incidents in the healthcare sector.
Worldwide number of data breach incidents caused by malware from November 2022 to October 2023, by industry
excluding incidents and breaches affecting individuals that cannot be tied to an organizational attribute loss
Supplementary notes
The source adds the following information: "All incidents included in this report were reviewed and converted (if necessary) into the VERIS framework to create a common, anonymous aggregate data set."
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Verizon. (May 1, 2024). Worldwide number of data breach incidents caused by malware from November 2022 to October 2023, by industry [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1419328/data-breaches-malware-by-industry/
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