U.S. average length of downtime after a ransomware attack 2022

As of the second quarter of 2022, the average length of interruption after ransomware attacks at businesses and organizations in the United States was 24 days. This was less than the downtime duration in previous quarter, 26 days. Overall, between the first quarter of 2020 and the fourth quarter of 2021, the average duration of the downtime after a ransomware attack had increased from 15 to 24 days.

Average duration of downtime after a ransomware attack at organizations in the United States from 1st quarter 2020 to 2nd quarter 2022

Characteristic	Average length of interruption in days
Q2 2022	24
Q1 2022	26
Q4 2021	20
Q3 2021	22
Q2 2021	23
Q1 2021	23
Q4 2020	21
Q3 2020	19
Q2 2020	16
Q1 2020	15

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Release date

July 2022

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United States

Survey time period

Q1 2020 to Q2 2022

Special properties

attacks on business and organizations

Supplementary notes

The figures have been taken from several publications.

The source adds the following information: "The figures represent the amount of time that the impacted organizations experienced some amount of material interruption or showed less than 100 percent productivity as a result of the attack."

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