costing an average of 4.23 million U.S. dollars per breach. In contrast, nation states only caused 13 percent of malicious data breaches but were the most costly.
In 2020, over half of malicious data breaches were caused by financially motivated threat actors, Share of malicious data breaches worldwide per threat actor in 2020
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