The Price Tag Attached to Data Breaches
Data Security
As reported by IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute, the costs are the highest in the U.S. with the average incident coming with a price tag of $7.91 million. Although one may assume that such leaks are always caused by criminal activity, 25 percent of the cases examined were actually due to human error.

Description
This chart shows the average total cost of a data breach in selected countries in 2018.