Recovery costs – covering legal fees, public relations, and technical containment, but excluding any ransom – averaged $235,000 and reached $2.1 million at the high end. Business email compromise averaged $26,000, though high-end cases exceeded $1.4 million. For New Zealand-specific context, Kordia’s 2025 New Zealand Business Cyber Security Report found that 59% of surveyed organisations experienced a cyberattack or incident in the previous 12 months. Among the reported impacts, 22% experienced operational or business disruption, 16% had personally identifiable information accessed or stolen, 15% made a cyber insurance claim, 14% faced financial extortion, and 9% paid a ransom to recover data or systems. The divergence from the Atmos figures likely reflects the dataset’s focus on larger mid-market entities with greater ransom capacity.
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