malicious data breaches in 2020.
In 2020, the average cost for a data breach was highest for state-sponsored breaches. Data breaches caused by nation states amounted to an average of 4.43 million U.S. dollars, ahead of data breaches by hacktivists or financially motivated breaches. Nation states accounted for 13 percent of Costliest threat actors in malicious data breaches worldwide in 2020, by average cost (in million U.S. dollars)
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