A full three-quarters of data breaches in the last year (74%) involved the human element, mainly caused by employees either falling for social engineering attacks or making errors, with some misusing their access maliciously. Social engineering incidents have almost doubled since last year to account for 17% of all breaches, according to Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) released June 6 (which analyzed more than 16,312 security incidents, of which 5,199 were confirmed data breaches).

Source: Dark Reading: Cloud