DATABREACH STATS & NEWS
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Overview
As more and more companies experience crippling security breaches, the wave of compromised data is on the rise. Data breach statistics show that hackers are highly motivated by money to acquire data, and that personal information is a highly valued type of data to compromise. It’s also apparent that companies are still not prepared enough for breaches even though the cybertechnology landscape has dramatically advanced.
Below are the top 2022 data breach stats covering types of data breaches, industry-specific, risks, costs, as well as data breach defense and prevention resources supporting the importance of cybersecurity and how to better align organizational security budgets.
- The global number of web attacks blocked per day increased by 561 percent
- The number of data breaches has significantly increased within the past decade, from a mere 662 to more than 1,000
- Office applications were the most commonly exploited applications worldwide
- 80 percent increase in the number of people affected by health data breaches
- Formjacking attacks caused an average of 10 credit card breach per website earning cybercriminals over $32M+
Data Breach Cost
- The average total cost of a ransomware breach is $4.62 million, slightly higher than the average data breach of $4.24 million
- The average per record (per capita) cost of a data breach increased by 10.3 percent
- The average total cost for healthcare increased from $7.13 million to $9.23 million, a 29.5 percent increase
- Lost business opportunities represented the largest share of breach costs, at an average total cost of $1.59 million
- The average cost of a breach with a lifecycle over 200 days is $4.87 million
- 39 percent of costs are incurred more than a year after a data breach
- United States was the country with the highest average total cost of a data breach was at $9.05 million
- The average cost of a mega-breach was $401 million for the largest breaches (50 – 65 million records), an increase from $392 million
- Annually, hospitals spend 64 percent more on advertising the two years following a breach
- The cost difference in breaches in which mature Zero Trust was deployed versus not was $1.76 million
- The largest difference for breaches with a high level of compliance failures compared to a low level was $2.30 million
Cause & Source
- An average of 4,800 websites a month are compromised with formjacking code
- 34 percent of data breaches involved internal actors
- 71 percent of breaches are financially motivated
- Ransomware accounts for nearly 24 percent of incidents in which malware is used
- 95 percent of breached records came from the government, retail and technology sectors
- 36 percent of external data breach actors were involved in organized crime
Response & Lifecycle
- It took an average of 287 days to identify a data breach
- The average time to contain a breach was 80-90 days
- Healthcare and financial industries had the longest data breach lifecycle — 329 days and 233 days, respectively
- The data breach lifecycle of a malicious or criminal attack took an average of 315 days
- Microsoft Office files accounted for 48 percent of malicious email attachments
- The most active attack groups targeted an average of 55 organizations
Industry News
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