The year is drawing to a close and National Technology News crunched the numbers to bring you the top five most-read stories of 2022.

Following the 2021 cyberattack on the US Colonial Pipeline, readers were keen to understand how safe the UK’s critical infrastructure was from cyberthreat. In the story, we spoke with a range of cyber security experts to identify the key tactics which could theoretically be deployed by cyber criminals to attack sectors including aviation, banks, and critical infrastructure.

The story topped our most-read list in 2022.

Coming in second place was a story about techUK’s calls for cooperation on the delivery of a properly regulated digital ID marketplace. A report by the company anticipated economic and social benefits of Digital ID ranging from allowing individuals and businesses to confidently assert their identity online, to providing greater protection against online fraud and verifying the right to work or rent digitally.

Resonating with the cost-of-living crisis which has dominated this year’s news cycle, the third most read story pertained to UK household spend on subscriptions. A survey by Barclays found that the average UK household shelled out £41 each month on subscriptions ranging from Netflix to direct-to-door services.

Our next most read story related to Amazon’s price hike to its Prime delivery service, which resulted in the loss of 600,000 members. This reflects our readership’s concerns over the cost-of-living crisis.

Coming in fifth place was the news that the Post Office was the first institution to be approved by the government for a digital ID service. The service new service enables employers to verify a UK citizen’s Right to Work will allow them to complete identity checks digitally via the Post Office Easy ID app or the Yoti ID app.

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