Breaches

Average total cost of a data breach as published in IBM/Ponemon "Cost of a Data Breach" reports, by report year, in US dollars. Early studies published only in local currency are left out, not converted. Each region is the average of the markets that year’s study reports for it (North America: United States, Canada; Latin America: Latin America, Brazil; Europe: United Kingdom, Germany, Benelux, France, Italy, Scandinavia; Middle East & North Africa: Middle East; Asia: Japan, India, ASEAN; Australia & New Zealand: Australia; Sub-Saharan Africa: South Africa); hover a figure to see which. Years with no published figure are left out (the series starts in 2006); "Not in report" means that year’s study did not cover the region, not that it had no breaches. Averages are not added up across years: selecting several years on the map shows their average. Map colours run from yellow (lower cost) to dark red (higher cost), relative to the regions shown. ▲ / ▼: above or below that year’s global average cost per breach.

Sources

• Ponemon 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States (PDF), Figure 2 12-year history
• Ponemon 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis (PDF), Figure 2 FY2014 comparison column
• Ponemon 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis (PDF)
• Ponemon 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis (PDF, Symantec-sponsored)
• IBM/Ponemon 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview (PDF)