33% of Millennials say they use a different password for every account as a measure to help themselves from being hacked.

Most consumers (68%) expect small businesses to maintain the same level of digital security as large corporations or better.

37% of Gen X and Boomers say they don't save their credit/debit card information in brand accounts as a measure to help themselves from being hacked.

7% of Gen X and Boomers report being less concerned about online security than they were five years ago.

The majority (67%) of consumers believe that their personal information is already on the dark web.

In the U.S., 73.8% of surveyed IT/security professionals reported being pressured to keep a breach confidential, even when they believed it should be reported to authorities.

Over half (57.6%) of surveyed IT/security professionals reported being pressured to keep a breach confidential, even when they believed it should be reported to authorities. This represents a 38% increase compared to Bitdefender’s 2023 report on the same question.

In Germany, 48.4% of surveyed IT/security professionals reported being pressured to keep a breach confidential, even when they believed it should be reported to authorities.

In the U.K., 58.1% of surveyed IT/security professionals reported being pressured to keep a breach confidential, even when they believed it should be reported to authorities.

In Singapore, 75.7% (highest rate of all regions) of surveyed IT/security professionals reported being pressured to keep a breach confidential, even when they believed it should be reported to authorities.

In Italy, 52.8% of surveyed IT/security professionals reported being pressured to keep a breach confidential, even when they believed it should be reported to authorities.

In France, 35.4% (lowest rate) of surveyed IT/security professionals reported being pressured to keep a breach confidential, even when they believed it should be reported to authorities.

32% of healthcare organizations suffered a breach in the past 12 months.

Cumulatively, over 1.6 billion records have been exposed since 2017 due to API breaches.

In the last three years, there have been 79 documented API breaches, significantly more than the 22 cloud-related breaches in the same period, indicating APIs are a growing focal point for attackers.

Despite the rise in API security incidents, the number of breaches dropped from 18 to 93.

Approximately 70% of AI data breaches have no secondary breach vector, deviating from typical multi-vector API breaches.

TracFone Wireless faced a $16 million settlement and a comprehensive consent decree due to API vulnerabilities that exposed customer data.

Individual breached records surged by more than 186%, revealing sensitive information such as passwords, emails, and credit card details.

More than half (55%) of respondents lack confidence in their current cloud security tools’ ability to detect breaches, citing limited visibility as the core issue.