In the past six years, the number of cyber-attacks and user data theft has increased significantly around the world, but last year the chain was broken. Data theft was 42 percent lower in 2022 than in 2021, but overall 42.2 million users were victimized. News Gizchina.
According to analysts and security experts, the number is much higher. Many tech companies have not made all attack data public, perhaps out of concern for user security. Only 34 percent of the attacks came forward in detail.
Many organizations do not release detailed information about attacks. Due to which other institutions are not able to take necessary decisions. Due to which hackers are getting more and more information of users.
Half of data theft victims were the Twitter users. In 2022, 22 million users’ data was stolen. The other top five companies are Neopets, AT&T, CashApp and BeetleEye. In most cases, the information stolen includes usernames and social security numbers. Sometimes personally identifiable information is also stolen. Users should be cautious about such information.