Average Cost of a Healthcare Data Breach Falls to $7.42 Million

HIPAA Journal July 30, 2025
Steve Alder

IBM has published the 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, which shows a fall in the global average cost of a data breach, but an increase in the cost of U.S. data breaches, which have set a new record at $10.22 million, increasing by 9.2% from an average of $9.36 million in 2024. The higher data breach costs in the United States were largely due to higher regulatory fines and detection and escalation costs. Globally, data breach costs have fallen for the first time in five years to an average of $4.44 million.

IBM has been releasing data breach cost reports for the past...

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