Managed Healthcare Executive July 31, 2025
Although data breaches in the healthcare industry cost less than they did last year, healthcare is still the most targeted industry for cybercriminals for the fourteenth consecutive year.
The average healthcare industry data security breach costs $7.42 million per incident, making it the most expensive industry for breaches for the fourteenth consecutive year, according to IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report.
In collaboration with IBM, researchers from the Ponemon Institute studied 600 organizations from 17 industries across 16 countries and regions impacted by data breaches between March 2024 and February 2025. The report was released yesterday.
For comparison, financial industry breaches, such as banking and investing, cost an average of $5.56 million per incident, and in the industrial...
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