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Annual number of cyber incidents according to U.S. federal agencies 2006-2016

Number of cyber security incident reports by federal agencies in the United States from FY 2006 to 2016
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The data describes the number of cyber security incident reports by federal agencies in the U.S. from the fiscal year 2006 to 2016. During the most recently published year, U.S. government agencies reported 30,899 cyber incidents, an approx. 60% decrease from the previous year. This is largely due to a change in federal reporting guidelines.

2006 5503
2007 11911
2008 16843
2009 29999
2010 41776
2011 42854
2012 48562
2013 61214
2014 67168
2015 77183
2016 30899