Data Loss
We've curated 53 cybersecurity statistics about Data loss to help you understand how threats like accidental deletions, hardware failures, and cyberattacks are impacting organizations in 2025. Discover the latest practices for protecting your critical data!
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Over a third of organizations worry about sensitive data being used in AI training.
Two in five organizations cite data loss via public or enterprise GenAI tools as a top concern.
Two-thirds (65%) of organizations have already deployed AI-enhanced data security capabilities to classify data.
Respondents reported an average of 11 data loss incidents per year, with some organizations experiencing multiple incidents each month.
42% of organizations attribute their most significant data loss events to compromised users.
32% of organizations attribute their most significant data loss events to malicious insiders.
64% of organizations rely on six or more data security vendors.
32% of organizations flag unsupervised data access by agents as a critical threat.
Just 1% of users are responsible for 76% of data loss events.
58% of organizations attribute their most significant data loss events to careless employees or third-party contractors.
Resolving a data loss incident can take between one and four weeks for more than one in five organizations (21%).
97% of security and IT pros surveyed believe behavioral AI can help prevent accidental data loss before it occurs.
96% of organizations surveyed experienced data loss or exposure from misdirected email in the past year.
48% of organizations experienced encrypted or lost access to data or systems due to ransomware.
Nearly 25% of organizations that experienced a ransomware attack suffered significant disruption or data loss.
24% of victims were affected by publicly released or stolen data, leading to ongoing competitive and compliance risks.
36% of insider incidents involved user credentials.
28.8% of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have already experienced a client data loss event that could have been prevented with a dedicated solution.
77% of organizations experienced insider-driven data loss in the past 18 months.
• 21% of organizations faced more than 20 insider-related data loss incidents in the past 18 months.