India Records Highest Average Cost of a Data Breach at INR 220 million in 2025: IBM Report

IBM today released its Cost of a Data Breach Report, which revealed the average total organizational cost of data breach in India reached an all-time high of INR 220 million in 2025 (13% higher than last year). The report also found that globally, AI adoption is greatly outpacing AI security and governance. While the overall number of organizations globally experiencing an AI-related breach is a small representation of the researched population, this is the first time security, governance and access controls for AI have been studied in this report, which suggests AI is already an easy, high value target.

Only 37% of organizations reported having AI access controls in place in India
Nearly 60% of organizations either don’t have AI governance policies in place or are still developing them in India.

This year’s results show that organizations are bypassing security and governance for AI in favor of do-it-now ...