About what is the average global cost of a company data breach today?
Answer$4.99 million
That's a record high, up 12% from the year before.
Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report ibm.com
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About how much did ransomware payments fall to in 2024, down from the record set the year before?
Answer$813 million
Law enforcement action and more victims refusing to pay drove the decline.
Source: Wikipedia, citing Chainalysis data (2024) en.wikipedia.org
About how many ransomware attacks were recorded worldwide in 2021?
Answerabout 623 million
That was a huge jump as ransomware became a mainstream criminal business model.
Source: Wikipedia, citing industry data (2021) en.wikipedia.org
About how many ransomware attacks occurred worldwide in just the first half of 2018?
Answer181.5 million
That was 229% more than the same period the year before.
Source: Wikipedia, citing industry data (2018) en.wikipedia.org
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