When cybercriminals began the onslaught of ransomware attacks on the healthcare industry in early 2016, very few were prepared with how best to respond. Further, most of these attacks went unreported.

The cost of a data breach dropped from $4.88 million to $4.44 million this year, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025. One part of IBM’s report focuses on the factors that affect the ...

In 2025, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report showed that the average cost of a breach fell to $4.44 million, a 9% drop, thanks ...

More than two-thirds (68%) of breaches globally involve a non-malicious human action. Vulnerability exploitation experienced 180% growth vs 2023. On average it took organisations about 55 days to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. Data breaches at colleges and universities are common. In the last 20 years ...

Doordash, the food delivery app, suffered a major data breach in October but took 19 days before it notified millions of its customers by email that personal information of theirs had been compromised ...