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Bleeping Computer: Texas Dept. of Transportation breached, 300k crash records stolen. “The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is warning that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor downloaded 300,000 crash records from its database. The incident occurred on May 12, 2025, and was caused by a threat actor logging into the TxDOT systems using compromised credentials.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/bleeping-computer-texas-dept-of-transportation-breached-300k-crash-records-stolen/

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Are #cybersecurity incidents growing more costly?

Cyentia Institute's recent Information Risk Insights Study points to a 15-fold increase in the cost of #incidents and #databreaches over the last 15 years.

The chart on the left shows the distribution of known/reported financial losses from incidents across the time period of the study. The typical (median) incident costs about $600K, while more extreme (95th percentile) losses swell to $32M. Note that the chart uses a log scale, so the tail of large losses is a lot longer than it appears.

The chart on the right trends the escalating costs of cyber events over time. Median losses from a security incident have absolutely exploded over the last 15 years, rising 15-fold from $190K to almost $3 million! The cost of extreme events has also risen substantially (~5x). So, yeah—cyber events are definitely growing more costly.

That said, this picture looks a lot different among different types and sizes of organizations. How are financial losses and other #cyberrisk factors trending for orgs like yours?

Download the full IRIS 2025 to find out!
Free with no reg req'd - though you can join Cyentia's free membership forum for bonus analytical content related to the report.

cyentia.com/iris2025/