Average Cost Of Health Care Data Breaches Increases To Almost $11 Million

For the 13th year in a row, health care data breaches were found to be the costliest of all data breaches, with the average cost increasing to $10.93 million. This is a 53.3% increase since 2020, and an 8.22% increase from the $10.10 average breach cost in 2022.  

 The average cost of worldwide data breaches was $4.45 million, or $165 per record breached. This represents a 2.3% increase from the 2022 cost of $4.35 million (equaling $164 per record breached). A total of 82.0% of data breaches involved data stored in “the . . .