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A survey of 26 countries has found that Americans are among the most likely to expect a cyberattack to occur on assets like public infrastructure and national security data. Roughly eight in 10 Americans said it is either “very” or “somewhat likely” that national-security data will be breached (82 percent), public infrastructure will be damaged (83 percent), or elections will be tampered with (78 percent) via hacking, according to data published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. Those were among the highest percentages of any respondents, indicating a growing acceptance among Americans that sensitive data breaches are a part of life. The answers also came through a partisan filter: 82 percent of U.S. Democrats said cyberattacks on elections infrastructure were likely, compared with 66 percent of Republicans. Of the three categories of cyber incidents distinguished in the survey, the breach of sensitive government information was, on the whole, of greatest […]
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