63% of sites surveyed didn't even know they'd been hacked
A StopBadware & Commtouch survey of 600 website owners who suffered a website breach found that:
- 63% did not know they had been hacked.
- 20% were hacked because hackers exploited out of date or insecure software
- 12% were hacked because the computer used to update their website was infected with a virus or malware.
- 9% were convinced they were hacked because of shared hosting
- 6% said weak authentication with either their own username/password or a colleagues was used to compromise the site
- 2% used a public computer or public WiFi network to make changes to their site
