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> roughly half of U.S. corporations report being attacked by ransomware last year.

Holy f..

I knew that is was bad. But that is way worse then i expected.

... based on a survey of "5,000 IT managers"

Source: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrary/Gated-Assets/white...

The exact question is "in the last year, has your organization been hit by ransomware?". It reads a little vague to me -- is a visible unsuccessful attack the same as getting "hit by ransomware"?

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