B
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74% -- breaches involving human factors for cybersecurity breaches (2025)
Studies indicate that 74% of breaches involve human factors.
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74%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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imit.com
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https://imit.com/social-engineering-in-cybersecurity-how-hackers-use-it/ ↗
Source Article
What is Social Engineering in Cybersecurity and How Do Hackers Use It?
TL;DR
- Social engineering is a type of attack in which hackers exploit individuals rather than systems to steal sensitive information.
- Hackers rely on the method because it is cheap, fast, and tends to evade technical defences.
- Phishing, pretexting, baiting, tailgating, and quid pro quo scams a…
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imit.com
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cybersecurity breaches: 74% breaches involving human factors. Source: imit.com (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/breaches-human-factors-74
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