30% of CEOs had their email address associated with a breach

Nearly 1 in 3 CEOs have used their company email address to register for a service that was later breached, compromising their password among other personal information, according to an F-Secure report.

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F-Secure, a cybersecurity company, studied 200 CEO email addresses at the largest companies across 10 countries and checked them against their database of leaked credentials.

Here are three things to know.

1.The most common breached services where CEOs link their email are LinkedIn and Dropbox.

2. Eighty-one percent of CEOs have had their email address and other personal information exposed online in spam lists or in leaked marketing databases.

3. Of the 10 countries studied, CEOs in Denmark (62 percent) were most at risk, followed by Netherlands (43 percent), Finland (40 percent) and U.S. (38 percent).

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