Retail
We've curated 69 cybersecurity statistics about Retail to help you understand how threats like payment fraud, data breaches, and evolving consumer privacy practices are changing the landscape of retail security in 2025.
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Email scams in retail increased by approximately 50% and in tech by approximately 85% as the holidays approached in 2025.
Only 25% of retailers reported being prepared for AI-powered threats, despite 45% expecting such threats to occur.
63% of retailers aim to invest significantly in machine learning for pattern matching to enhance cybersecurity.
63% of retailers plan to invest significantly in generative AI for social engineering attacks.
34% of retailers stated that their organization has suffered a breach in the past 12 months.
65% of retailers intend to invest significantly in cyber-resilience processes across their business.
66% of retailers plan to invest significantly in application security to prepare for evolving threats.
47% of retail executives reported having very low to moderate visibility into their software supply chain.
67% of retail executives who reported high-profile breaches indicated that cybersecurity has become a higher priority on the C-suite agenda in 2025.
60% of retail executives indicated that their cybersecurity team is integrated with lines of business.
44% of retailers reported experiencing a significantly higher volume of attacks in 2025.
26% of cases in retail saw leadership teams replaced as a result of data encryption in 2025
46% of retail ransomware incidents were traced to an unknown security gap in 2025
The average cost of recovering from a ransomware attack in retail, excluding any ransom payment, dropped by 40% to $1.65 million in 2025, the lowest point in three years
The median ransom demand for retail ransomware attacks doubled to $2 million in 2025 compared to 2024
47% of retail IT/cybersecurity teams reported increased pressure after experiencing data encryption in 2025
62% of retailers who experienced attacks restored their data using backups in 2025, the lowest rate in four years
The proportion of retailers hit by extortion-only attacks tripled from 2% in 2023 to 6% in 2025
58% of retail organizations with encrypted data paid the ransom in 2025, marking the second highest payment rate in five years
29.69% of retail organizations reported limited visibility into their entire environment.