5 Countries That Produce The Best Hackers

2. United Kingdom

ITU GCI Ranking: 2

BCNCPI Ranking: 4

MTRICDI Ranking: 7

Average Score: 4.3

The number of cyber-attacks on UK organizations increased by 77% from 2021 to 2022, averaging 788 a week. Every 19 seconds, a small business in the UK is successfully hacked. There are 65,000 attempts every day to hack small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs), and about 4,500 of those are successful.

The Cost of Cyber-crime report states that the UK economy loses about £27 billion to cybercrime each year. According to the report, the theft of intellectual property from businesses costs £9.2 billion. Industry sectors severely damaged include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, electronics, IT, and chemicals. The estimated cost of industrial espionage is £7.6 billion. In addition, the report estimates that cybercrime costs the public and the government £3.1 billion and £2.2 billion, respectively.