AICPA Survey Shows U.S. Adults Worried About Identity Theft and Financial Fraud and Concerned Businesses Can’t Protect Their Data -

A new Harris Poll for the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), which called 1,006 U.S. adults for the report, shows interesting statistics regarding American adults’ attitudes and fears about identity theft and financial loss as a result of cyber intrusions. The poll’s conclusion is that 48 percent of U.S. adults believe that identity theft will cause them financial loss in the next year, and 81 percent are concerned that businesses are unable to safeguard their personal and financial information—40 percent of those individuals are either extremely or very concerned about that possibility. One of the statistics cited by the poll is that 145 million U.S. adults were hit with malware, viruses, spyware, and phishing schemes in 2017.