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Rising security breaches cost UK plc billions in the last year, shows new PwC/Infosecurity Europe survey

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- One in seven large organisations has been hacked in the last year
- The average large organisations face a significant outsider attack every week - small businesses face one a month
- 20% of organisations spend less than 1% of their IT budget on information security
- Customer impersonation up threefold since 2008 - financial services affected most

The number of large organisations being hacked into is at a record high; the overall cost of security breaches to UK plc is now billions of pounds a year, a new survey of 447 UK businesses shows.

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