As we've seen over the course of the last few years alone, companies in the US have have had a particularly difficult time dealing with the repercussion of data breaches.
In 2018, about 25% of data breaches were due to human error rather than criminal activity, according to $4, and apparently they all happened at a monetary rate disproportionate to the rest of the world.
It's not just that they're $4. As this $4 shows, American companies also paid significantly more on average for every data breach in 2018 than companies in any other country - a little over $3 million more than companies in runner-up Canada, and more than twice as everyone other than Canada, Germany, and France.
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