One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6 million, roughly $1M more than the global breach average of $4.99M, according to IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report.

IBM's Cost of a Data Breach report finds that one in four breaches were AI-enabled, and that's before taking into account the Hugging Face breach.

One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6 million, roughly $1M more than the global breach average…