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Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher

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More than one in four organizations hit by a malicious attack over the past year say AI drove it. Those breaches averaged about $1 million above the malicious attacks that ran without AI. Defenders bought similar technology and aimed it somewhere else. Half of breached organizations put AI agents inside a security operations center, mostly on threat hunting, automated response and containment. Among that group, 18% aimed agents at vulnerability scanning and management, the work … More → The post Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher appeared first on Help Net Security .

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