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title: "Report: Risk Insights from 10 Years of Breach Event Monitoring"
description: New RiskRecon report including detailed breach event findings from nearly 200,000 companies.
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# [Report: Risk Insights from 10 Years of Breach Event Monitoring](https://www.riskrecon.com/academy/report-risk-insights-from-10-years-of-breach-event-monitoring)

 Written by [RiskRecon](https://www.riskrecon.com/academy/author/riskrecon) | Jul 22, 2025 1:00:00 PM

In today’s digital economy, knowing your risk isn’t enough—you need to understand it. RiskRecon’s latest research analyzes 10 years of publicly reported cyber breach events across 196,000 organizations, delivering a comprehensive look at the who, what, where, and how behind modern breaches. Whether you’re protecting your enterprise, evaluating third-party vendors, or building a cyber insurance model, this report is your guide to smarter, more resilient cybersecurity.

### **What You’ll Learn in the Report**

- **Deep analysis of 20,241 breach events** across industries, geographies, and company sizes
- **Breach rates increased 450%** over the past decade—are your defenses keeping up?
- **Healthcare and energy sectors lead** all industries in breach frequency
- **Global breach rates reveal disparities** in detection, disclosure, and regulation
- **External actors and partners now drive most breach events**, surpassing insiders
- **Organizations with poor cybersecurity hygiene** (RiskRecon-rated D or F) are **3.6x more likely** to experience a breach
- **68% of breaches are reported within 30 days**, but 7% take more than a year to be disclosed
- **Ransomware accounted for 53% of all breaches in 2024**, rising sharply from just 2 in 2015

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