2025 REPORT: LEADERSHIP AT RISK IN A DATA-EXPOSED WORLD
Why Your C-suite’s Digital Footprint Is Your Biggest Blind Spot
Executive Summary
A 2025 snapshot of the exposure of more than 10,000 C-suite executives in the USA across different sectors and roles, and how compromised privacy impacts cyber and physical security.
The numbers tell a troubling story: 93% of C-suite executives have their home addresses exposed on data broker sites. 94% have plaintext passwords available to attackers. 100% have been caught in data breaches — with an average of 43 breaches per executive.
These statistics represent real, exploitable pathways to both cyber and physical threats.
Picnic’s analysis of over 10,000 U.S.-based executives across 65 industries reveals the true extent of this crisis. Our research encompasses leaders from 411 Fortune 500 and 1,329 Global 2,000 companies, providing unprecedented visibility into executive digital vulnerability.
This paper examines how exposed personally identifiable information (PII) creates tangible risks for executives and their organizations, which leadership roles face the greatest danger, and how security teams can implement effective digital executive protection programs to address these threats.
