On April 3, the U.K. Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport published the Cyber Security Breaches Survey. Only 32 percent of U.K. businesses contacted for the survey said their data was breached or attacked, a decrease from 2018’s 43 percent. While that 11 percent decline might seem like a congratulatory statistic, it may underscore a trend of a smaller group of companies being successfully – and more frequently – targeted with cyberattacks.

The report was conducted with 1,500-plus U.K. businesses and 514 U.K. registered charities between October and December 2018. The fourth annual report is the first cybersecurity breach survey conducted after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect.