DATA PRIVACY – SECTOR
BY SECTOR
WRITTEN BY : VIKKI DAVIES
Cyber magazine explores the sectors most at risk from a data breach and the new legislation designed to protect them making up just under one-in-ten cases . This amounts to around 2,929 data breaches within each of the third-place sectors , out of the total 32,541 data breaches since 2019 .
The report also analysed the types of data that had been breached within the different sectors . The research found that basic personal identifiers being breached came up top within the finance sector at 74 %. The second-highest form of data breaches involved economic and financial data at 37 %.
The findings also showed the different incident types behind the data breaches : the number one reason behind data breaches within the finance sector was due to data being emailed to incorrect recipients . The total number of these cases was 569 . There were also 509 cases of data being posted or faxed to the incorrect recipient , and 415 cases of phishing .
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