Gen Z falls for scams 2x more than older generations

By some measures, young people are twice as likely to fall for cyberattacks than supposedly gullible old people are.

Many assume that older people, by virtue of having less intimate knowledge of new technologies, are at proportionately greater risk of falling for online scams. However, recent data suggests that it’s younger people who are at greater risk, due to their online habits and also broader economic pressures.

Earlier this spring, in survey data shared with Dark Reading, CyberArk found 20% of Gen Zers said they’d never been hacked before. That was just half the rate reported by baby boomers (41%), despite their having lived literally fewer years during which they could have been hacked.

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