Chart of the week: The price tag attached to data breaches
As well as the negative effect on public image and reputation, the infographic below shows the average monetary cost of a data breach.
As reported by IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute, the costs are the highest in the US with the average incident coming with a price tag of US$7.91 million. Although one may assume that such leaks are always caused by criminal activity, 25 per cent of the cases examined were actually due to human error.
Download the chart here.
Chart by Statista
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