ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES Cybercrime is more common than we realise, especially in the film, television and VOD sectors. Individuals are most often the perpetrators, leaking videos pre-release or illegally streaming content for free. Piracy is generally driven by an unwillingness to pay high
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prices for movie tickets or streaming services, combined with a desire to view content as soon as it’s available. In 2017, between a quarter and a third of consumers in Switzerland, Australia, Spain, Italy and Brazil reported an interest in pirating TV series.
In Spain and Canada, more than a third of consumers admitted to watching pirated videos, and in Indonesia and Egypt, 16% did so more than once per week. Finally, in the US, 24% of respondents pirated a movie while it was still being shown in theatres.
Forbes overall trends
Forbes film & TV
Interest in pirating videos per country
McKinsey overall trends
10% 15% 20% 25% 35% 30% 40%
34%
33%
29%
27%
27%
McKinsey cyber maturity
0% 5%
Switzerland
Australia
Spain
Italy
Brazil
UK Gov
While piracy may seem like an excusable act – barely harmful when done on the individual level – it costs the production industry billions of pounds in lost revenue every year.
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SOCIAL SECURITY
Finally, anyone who uses social media should be wary of the occasional large-scale data breach. In 2022 alone, Twitter had two major attacks, which in turn impacted more
than 225 million individuals. Other isolated incidents involved Neopets (gaming), AT&T (telecom) and Beetle Eye (email marketing), affecting an additional 98 million.
DataProt
Twitter (Dec 2022)
221.52
Neopets
69
Statista
AT&T Data
22.79
Cash App Investing, LLC
8.2
Beetle Eye
7
Signal intrusion wiki
Twitter (Jan 2022)
5.49
Receivables Performance Management, LLC
3.77
Flexbookers
3.76
Eye Care Leaders
3.37
Zoombombing wiki
Advocate Aurora Health
3
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50
100
150
200
250
Number of individuals affected in millions
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