Majority of Enterprises Hit by Executive Impersonation as C-Suite Becomes the Fastest-Growing Attack Surface

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Outtake today released the 2026 State of Executive Impersonation Report, the industry's first report detailing where, how, and why executives are getting impersonated online. Drawn from a sample of 40 thousand impersonation alerts observed across a sample of ~300 executives in 2025–2026 and corroborated against public industry data from the FBI, FTC, and Verizon DBIR, the research exposes a structural gap in enterprise security: the most public-facing people in an org