We've curated 33 cybersecurity statistics about cyber incidents to help you understand how breaches, attacks, and vulnerabilities are impacting organizations and shaping security practices in 2025.
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Cybercrime operators accounted for approximately 16% of cyber incidents in the EU in 2024.
Cyberespionage campaigns constituted 2.5% of all reported cyber incidents in the EU in 2024.
38% of all reported cyber incidents in the EU in 2024 targeted the public administration sector.
Hacktivists were responsible for nearly 63% of cyber incidents in the EU in 2024.
Data breaches accounted for 17.4% of cyber incidents affecting public administration in the EU in 2024.
69% of cyber incidents in 2024 targeted central governments in the EU.
60% of all reported cyber incidents in 2024 were Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks.
87% of CISOs say pressure in their role has increased over the past year.
58% of CISOs say incidents occurred even though their security tools were in place.
Two-thirds of CISOs report feeling burned out weekly or daily.
Boards most often ask CISOs for the following metrics: risk-reduction trendlines (51%), quantified business impact (47%), and incident-response performance metrics (40%).
60% of healthcare organizations reported operational disruptions due to cyber incidents.
59% of healthcare organizations faced clinical consequences from cyber incidents, including delayed treatments and compromised patient trust.
73% of U.S. CISOs reported facing a significant cyber incident in the past six months.
Nearly 20% of recent incidents reported by CISOs were already AI-related.
56% of CISOs say their security tools don’t integrate fully.
90% of CISOs say their role may be at risk to some degree if a breach were to occur.
13% of CISOs oversee 50 or more security tools.
57% of CISOs report that half or fewer of their security tools deliver measurable Return on Investment (ROI).
82% of CISOs feel confident quantifying risk.