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The report is based on data from a survey of 600 IT, IT security, and OT security practitioners conducted by the Ponemon Institute in the United States.
Twenty-nine percent of respondents admitted that their organization was hit by ransomware in the past two years, and more than half of them said they had paid an average ransom of more than $500,000. Some organizations reported paying more than $2 million.