Average number of cyber security breaches in United Kingdom (UK) businesses 2019

This statistic displays the average number of breaches in businesses in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2019. In micro or small businesses, an average of 886 breaches occurred in the last 12 months, whereas medium businesses had an average of 330 security breaches.
A cyber security breach is anything relating to an unauthorized access of data, applications, services, networks. With each passing year, more and more businesses were experiencing cyber security breaches or attacks.
Concerning the size of businesses, micro businesses had two to nine employees, small businesses had 10 to 49 employees, medium businesses had 50 to 249 employees and large businesses had 250 employees or more.