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Evidence standard

The honest way to talk about cyber loss.

How we keep the numbers honest

Where a number appears on these pages it carries a real, independent source, or it does not appear. We lead with records-based, peer-reviewed and government research, never a security vendor selling the fear its own report creates.

Breach losses are heavy-tailed, not an average. Records-based analysis of real incidents finds the typical loss in the low hundreds of thousands while a handful of catastrophic events dominate any mean. Median per-incident loss has risen roughly fifteen-fold since 2008, to nearly $3M today, with extreme events near $32M at the 95th percentile.Cyentia Institute, Information Risk Insights Study 2025 · source

A single average misrepresents cyber risk. Peer-reviewed analysis finds the mean cyber loss runs roughly 160 times the median, and the largest 0.5% of losses roughly equal the entire bottom 99.5% combined. One loss causes ruin.Journal of Cybersecurity (Oxford University Press), 2023 · source

Business email compromise moves real money. US victims reported $2.77B in business email compromise losses across 21,442 complaints in 2024, one of the largest reported loss categories.FBI IC3 Internet Crime Report 2024 · source

In healthcare, the breach is measured in care. Of 374 ransomware attacks on US healthcare delivery organisations from 2016 to 2021, about 44% disrupted care delivery, and together they exposed the data of nearly 42 million patients.JAMA Health Forum, 2022 (peer-reviewed) · source

Two honesty notes. The FBI figures are victim-reported and self-selected, so they understate the true totals. The healthcare research documents care disruption, not patient death; we never claim more than the evidence supports.