Data Breaches > Riskrecon

Ripples Across The Risk Surface (2025) - Investigates the prevalence and financial impact of multi-party ripple incidents, which occur when a single cybersecurity breach propagates across multiple organizations. Analysis of over 1,500 incidents reveals that while ripple events are less frequent than single-party breaches, they routinely trigger losses 10 times higher for the generating firm. Furthermore, the data indicates that downstream costs for receiving organizations have risen steadily over time, with median per-firm losses for generators reaching 4.7 million dollars compared to 1.8 million dollars for receivers.