{
    "statement": "average cost of a data breach in the US in 2026, the highest of any country and more than twice the global $4.99 million",
    "value_display": "$11.5M",
    "value_numeric": 11.5,
    "unit": "$M",
    "data_label": "Breaches Mar 2025 to Feb 2026",
    "data_period_end": "2026-02-28",
    "region": "USA",
    "size": "all",
    "source": {
        "name": "Cost of a Data Breach Report",
        "publisher": "IBM (research by Ponemon Institute)",
        "type": "vendor",
        "url": "https://www.ibm.com/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://www-api.ibm.com/adobe/assets/urn:aaid:aem:21111142-1251-4369-86fb-57b82f5bb108/original/as/Cost%20of%20a%20Data%20Breach%20Report%202026.pdf",
    "source_quote": "Average breach costs in the US reached a record USD 11.5 million, an 11% increase over last year and nearly double the global average.",
    "verification_note": "Read in the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 PDF (IBM asset server). CORRECTED from data.js $10.22M (that was the 2025 report). Country table: United States 11.50 (2026) vs 10.22 (2025). IBM's own text gives the rise as 11% on p.7 and 13% in key findings; the table implies about 12.5%, so we quote no rise.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [
        {
            "happened_on": "2026-07-29",
            "kind": "correction",
            "value_display": "$10.22M",
            "note": "data.js used the 2025 report value; IBM's 2026 report gives $11.5M."
        }
    ],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/cybersecurity/data-breach-cost-us-average",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/cybersecurity/data-breach-cost-us-average.csv"
}