Cyberattacks continue to rise in frequency and scope, affecting everyone from private citizens to corporations to city governments, with frequently embarrassing or distressing results. The Onion takes a look at some key facts about cybercrime.
4.3 billion:
People who have ruined entire lives by clicking something that looks like a “Play Video” button
0%:
Companies committed to ensuring their customer data is safe
98:
Version of Windows currently running the control center of your city’s water supply
89%:
Percentage of hackers who actually commit cybercrimes while wearing a hoodie covering their face in a dimly lit room
4:
Investigators working to stop cybercrime in the United States
$250:
Street value of your grocery shopping habits
100%:
Effectiveness of adding an exclamation point to the end of a password
2300 9898 9557 4491:
Your credit card number
0:
Worries you’d have about any of this if you just cut the wires, went completely off the grid, and lived free at last as early man once did
489:
People whose computers have been infected with a virus simply by clicking on this article