Share of adults who have been negatively impacted by a privacy breach UK 2021

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Feb 7, 2023
In a survey carried out in 2021, a third of respondents said they had been negatively impacted by a privacy breach. Of these, six percent had been impacted in the past month. Slightly less than half of the respondents to the survey said they had never been impacted by a privacy breach, and roughly 20 percent were not sure.

Have you ever been negatively impacted by a privacy breach?

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March 2021

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

February 2021

Number of respondents

1,269 respondents

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The survey question was phrased by the source as follows: "Have you ever been negatively impacted by a privacy breach?"

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