Please note: we try to make sure all of the ransomware attacks we include within our analysis are publicly confirmed. We also keep an ongoing database of the ransomware attacks that have been confirmed.

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That equates to around $1.3 billion in bounty for hackers.īut how do these figures break down by state and industry? And what does 2022 look like so far? We estimate that ransom demands totaled as much as $3.4 billion last year, with hackers receiving payment in just less than 30 percent of cases. In 2021, the average ransom demand was $5.8 million (up from just over $2 million in 2020) and the average ransom payment was $7.9 million (up from just over $1 million in 2020). Ransom demands and payments reached new highs in 2021. While positive, our data highlights that ransomware attacks have become more targeted and, ultimately, more devastating. Entities may have faced further costs as they offered identity theft protection for affected customers, restored affected computers, and tried to improve their systems to ward off future attacks.Īccording to the confirmed ransomware attacks tracked by Comparitech, ransomware attacks actually decreased by over seven percent last year (falling from 620 to 576), after almost doubling from 2019 to 2020. This affected at least 34.1 million records and resulted in a cost of $159.4 billion in downtime alone. In 2021, 576 US organizations fell victim to ransomware.

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