Global data breaches caused by malware 2022-2023, by industry

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Ani Petrosyan,
Nov 12, 2024

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

CharacteristicNumber of data breaches
Education 881
Finance 457
Professional 429
Manufacturing 379
Public administration 292
Information 277
Retail 215
Healthcare 165
Other services 94
Real estate 79
Mining/Utilities 77
Entertainment 71
Transportation 65
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May 2024

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November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023

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excluding incidents and breaches affecting individuals that cannot be tied to an organizational attribute loss

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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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