B
Evidence Grade B
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73%
73% -- website vulnerability rate for all websites (2026)
Over 73% of all websites have vulnerabilities or security holes that hackers can use to modify or harvest data.
- Source text specifies 'over 73%'
- Footnote indicates this is based on scans performed by Trust Guard
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Value
73%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
1,500
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Trust Guard
Primary
Tier B
http://www.trust-guard.com/safe-shopping-online.htm ↗
Source Article
"3 Ways to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft Online"
Original Research
Trust Guard
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Methodology
Based on actual PCI-compliant security scans performed by Trust Guard; footnote notes other companies report figures as high as 85.6% and mentions a survey of over 1,500 website owners
Methodology documented
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Industrymarketing
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all websites: 73% website vulnerability rate. Source: Trust Guard (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/websites-with-vulnerabilities-73pct
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/websites-with-vulnerabilities-73pct" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>73%</strong> -- website vulnerability rate for all websites<br><small>Source: Trust Guard (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/websites-with-vulnerabilities-73pct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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