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25 Alarming Cybersecurity Stats from 2020

These are some of the more concerning, cybersecurity related statistics of 2020. Enjoy...   1. Approx. 300 billion passwords in the wild. That is the number of passwords that have been exposed in 2020, from all the cyberattacks. There are many services out there that can tell you if accounts that you use have been associated with any attacks. Do not, ever, enter your password into any of these. They should be able to tell you if your account is associated with a breach by just entering your user which in most cases would be your email.  Here is one such service:  https://haveibeenpwned.com/ 2. 65% of companies have more than 1,000 stale user accounts. Ok, so this is more of an enterprise metric, but consider this... How many old email accounts do you have? If you are not using those accounts anymore, did you bother to cancel them? We tend to use the same username and password on different accounts. If you do this and one of the services that you consume on the internet is attacked and