Results from the World Economic Forum’s 2019 Executive Opinion Survey indicate that concerns about “cyberattacks” are top among business leaders in the four largest European Union (EU) economies: Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom; and rank first in another six countries across the continent. In late 2018 and throughout 2019, European countries have experienced cyberattacks and data-theft attacks on state agencies and large businesses: Germany saw attacks on email accounts of members of parliament, the military and several embassies in November 2018, while in the lead-up to the European elections in May, various types of malicious activities were encountered.
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