The Cost of Data Breaches
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4 min readAug 25, 2020
The IBM Security “Cost of a Data breach” survey is out [here], and it analyses the ever-increasing costs involved in data breaches. It involves a survey of 524 companies who have recently had a data breach (between August 2019 and April 2020) and covers over 17 countries, and 17 different sectors.
As previous research has shown, the industries which bare the most costs are healthcare ($7.13 billion) and energy ($6.9…
