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What Is Baiting in Cybersecurity? How Do Attackers Get You to Hack Yourself? Baiting doesn’t involve a hacker breaking into your system. Instead, you open the door for…
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A floor, not a ceiling: most breached organisations never publish what an incident cost them.
Sources: Have I Been Pwned, DeFiLlama, SEC filings, public reports. Updated September 25, 2026.
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