UK businesses: outcomes of cyberattacks 2024| ��ƽ��

Common outcomes of cybercrime incidents experienced by companies in the United Kingdom (UK) as of January 2024

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Any listed outcome	13%
Website, or online services taken down or made slower	4%
Temporary loss of access to files or networks	4%
Money stolen	3%
Lost access to relied-on third-party services	2%
Compromised accounts or systems used for illicit purposes	2%
Money was paid as a ransom*	2%
Software or systems corrupted or damaged	1%
Personal data altered, destroyed or taken	1%
Damage to physical devices or equipment	1%
Permanent loss of files (not personal data)	1%
Lost or stolen assets, trade secrets or intellectual property	1%

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Release date

April 2024

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

September 7, 2023 to January 19, 2024

Number of respondents

2,000 respondents

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among UK businesses that identified a breach or attack in the last 12 months

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This statistic is using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the

*Values greater than 0% but too small to be rounded up to 1% are shown as 0.5%.

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A survey conducted in the United Kingdom (UK) from September 2023 to January 2024 found that around 13 percent of businesses that had identified a data breach incident or a cyberattack in the preceding 12 months had seen at least one outcome after the incident. The most common were the situations where the website or online services were taken down or made slower and the temporary loss of access to files or networks.