Gen Z
We've curated 85 cybersecurity statistics about Gen Z to help you understand how this tech-savvy generation's online habits and evolving threat landscape are shaping cybersecurity practices in 2025.
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About 1 in 3 (30%) Gen Z and Millennials find sites that are not mobile-friendly concerning, versus 24% of Gen X and Boomers.
31% of Gen Z and 27% of Millennials feel uneasy when websites have ads, versus 18% of Gen X and Boomers.
38% of Gen Z consumers say they use a different password for every account as a measure to help themselves from being hacked.
33% of Gen Z consumers say they use a password manager that creates secure passwords as a measure to help themselves from being hacked.
When faced with data breaches at both a large corporation and a small business, 1 in 3 (34%) Gen Z and Millennials say they would stop shopping with both entirely.
The majority of consumers (61%) repeat passwords across their various accounts. This habit is slightly more common among Gen Z and Millennials compared to Gen X and Boomers.
42% of Gen Z and 40% of Millennial respondents would not immediately change their passwords or credit card information after being notified of a data breach, if they act at all.
21% of Gen Z and 16% of Millennials report being less concerned about online security than they were five years ago.
28% of Gen Z have fallen victim to extortion scams.
72% of both Gen Z and Millennial respondents estimate they have fewer than 25 unique passwords.
One in four (25%) Gen Z respondents share passwords by including them in the body of a text.
62% of Gen Z report some level of stress when it comes to managing passwords.
Only 13% of Gen Z report using a password manager to securely share sensitive login information.
35% of Gen Z respondents revealed they never or rarely update passwords after a data breach at a company with which they have an account. Only 10% of Gen Z reported that they always update compromised passwords.
Over 80% of Gen Z and Millennials report that they are at least somewhat likely to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) when it isn’t required. This compares to just 51% of Boomers.
Nearly half (44%) of Gen Z changed a streaming service password to remove account access for a family member or friend following an emotional response to something they said or did.
79% of Gen Z believe that reusing the same password across multiple accounts is risky.
A quarter (25%) of Gen Z often or always rely on the password reset function to access an account when they’ve forgotten their password. This is higher than 11% of Boomers and 17% of Gen X who do the same.
19% of Gen Z send screenshots of their credentials.
72% of Gen Z admit they reuse the same password across accounts. This contrasts with 42% of Boomers who report doing the same.