Freedom of Information Requests submitted by researchers at Comparitech have revealed that UK Government employees received 2400 malicious emails each in 2021.
The Comparitech team estimates that 764,331 government employees across 258 government organisations received a staggering total of 2.69 billion malicious emails in 2021.
Key Findings of the study include:
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Government employees received an average of 2,399.41 malicious emails each in 2021
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258 government organisations received an estimated 2.69 billion malicious emails in 2021
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An average of 0.32% of malicious emails were opened by staff in 2021, meaning roughly 8.62 million malicious emails were potentially opened by staff
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Of those opened, 0.67% of these malicious emails resulted in staff members clicking on suspicious links, resulting in 57,736 occasions in which staff clicked suspicious links.
