The average cost of a data breach in 2021 was sitting at $4.24 million US dollars. In 2022 this increased by 2.6% to $4.35 million US dollars according to data breach statistics. The average cost of data breaches for critical infrastructure has increased to $4.82 million US dollars.
The cyber security sector has come under increasing pressures to implement, update and maintain their cybersecurity measures that are in place in an environment of every increasing risk in cyberspace.
In this post we will look at the statistics for the top data breaches in 2023.
2023 Top Data Breach Statistics
- In a 2022 breach report by IBM, Breaches caused by phishing took the 3rd longest average time to identify and contain sitting at 295 days (Click To Read The Report).
- In the FBI's 2021 IC3 Report mentions that around 22% of all data breaches are accounted for through phishing.
- Zero-trust architecture was not used by 79% of organizations running critical infrastructure.
- Cloud based data breaches were around 45%
- Hospitals were the targets of large data breaches sitting at 30%
- Between March 2021 and Februrary 2022, data breaches exposed
- A breach was experienced by Yahoo which affected around 1,000,000,000 individuals due to a malicious external threat actor that managed to gain access through identity theft (Click To Read More).
- Aadhar, India's biometric database which contains personal information of almost every Indian citizen (almost 1.1 billion people) was exposed due to a security breach (Click To Read More).
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