Phishing: Facebook still the most hijacked organization in France

On February 15, 2024, the cybersecurity firm Vade published its yearly report on the phishing emails it detected in 2023, and the companies and industries hardest hit by identity theft.

Facebook is thus, for the third year running, the company most affected by identity theft, with a 74% increase in fraudulent emails. The platform accounts for 23% of phishing cases identified by Vade in 2023, twice as much as the runner-up, Microsoft. The social media industry has indeed experienced the largest increase (110%) in fraudulent URLs between 2022 and 2023.

Financial institutions remain however the most targeted by phishing, accounting for 32% of all scams, although the number did not grow in 2023. Crédit agricole (ranked third, 6% of identity theft), SoftBank (5th, 2.8%), PayPal (7th, 2.3%) and Bank of America (9th, 2.1%) are thus among the ten businesses most affected by identity theft in 2023. Orange (4th, 4.4%) completes the top 5.