Data Breach Cost Calculator
Estimate what a breach could cost your business, based on per-record cost averages and detection-time multipliers from published industry breach cost research.
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Estimated Total Cost
$248,975
Likely range: $186,731 – $323,668
Typical cost breakdown
How This Estimate Is Calculated
This calculator uses a base cost of roughly $165 per exposed record — in line with published global averages from annual data breach cost research — adjusted by an industry multiplier (healthcare and financial services run highest due to regulatory exposure), a flat incident-response cost scaled to company size, and a detection-time multiplier, since breaches that go undetected longer consistently cost more to contain.
This is a planning estimate, not a quote — actual costs vary by jurisdiction, contract obligations, and whether cyber insurance is in place. Its purpose is to make the case for prevention concrete: the fastest way to cut this number is to never need it.
Cheaper Than a Breach: What Prevention Costs
Basic controls — MFA, backups, phishing training, patched software — cost a fraction of even a small breach. Run our Cybersecurity Risk Self-Assessment to see which of those controls you're missing.