Almost 33% of email and social media users have been victims of at least one cyberattack.
Everyone probably knows someone whose social media or email accounts have been hacked. Statistically, this means that 32.7% of email and social media users experienced at least one online cyberattack in 2018. Of that number, more than half had personal information stolen, such as social security numbers, banking information, and credit card details.
About 44% of people have experienced some form of online harassment.
Online stalkers are most effective when data protection measures are weak. Privacy statistics show that about 44% of Internet users have personally experienced some type of online harassment, ranging from offensive name-calling and stalking to physical threats and sustained aggressive behavior. Most of these victims are women, with one in six reporting such experiences compared to one in 19 men.
Young people aged 16 to 24 are less cautious about the information they disclose online than people aged 25 to 34.
When it comes to teens, social media and privacy statistics inform us that people aged 16 to 24 are most likely to engage in activities that could negatively impact them. Although young people are the most prominent users of the Internet, they are less cautious about online privacy. They tend to post photos and communicate with strangers.
25% of adult Internet users have posted sensitive information about themselves on social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook.
One of the most shocking statistics about social media privacy tells us that a quarter of adult internet users admit to having been careless and posted sensitive information about themselves on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
If the gravity of this fact is not fully understood, it means that approximately one in four registered users of a social network has shared personal information on social media, such as their addresses (home and email), full names and phone numbers.