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spear phishing attempts in 2019
over important information.
FACT #1
86% of breaches in 2020 were financially motivated
FACT #2
10% were motivated by espionage
Data breaches
exposed 36 billion
records in the first
half of 2020
January 2019 saw the release
of nearly two billion hacked
records – 1,769,185,063
36%
of individuals reporting at least one cyber
incident suffered some sort of loss as a result
Canadian Anti-fraud Centre (CAFC) estimated that
over $98 million was lost due to fraud in 2019.
See this chart for incidents of alleged fraud, including identity
theft, and identity fraud reported to police from the past 3 years
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- https://www.advisor.ca/news/industry-news/fraud-in-canada-continues-to-climb-statscan/