The global data theft crisis, as it happens
Every second, thousands of files are taken from connected systems. This page tracks the scale of the problem, the root causes behind it, and why physical disconnection is the one control an attacker cannot reach across a network.
424,618,200,000
Rising by 20,000 every second, based on Cybersecurity Ventures projections of more than 50 billion files stolen each year.
Every one of those files was reachable over a network.
£8.7T+
Global cybercrime cost
Cybersecurity Ventures
£210B
Ransomware cost by 2031
Cybersecurity Ventures
£3.9M
Average breach cost
IBM Cost of a Data Breach
277 days
Time to contain a breach
IBM Cost of a Data Breach
Why breaches keep happening
Four causes account for the overwhelming majority of incidents. The common thread is that the compromised data was connected.
Breaches that made the headlines
Large organisations with substantial security budgets are not exempt. In every case the data was reachable.
Change Healthcare
2024Ransomware attack on healthcare infrastructure
- Records
- 100M+ patients
- Cost
- £1.3 billion
MOVEit
2023Zero day exploit in file transfer software
- Records
- 77 million people
- Cost
- Ongoing
MGM Resorts
2023Social engineering attack
- Records
- Undisclosed
- Cost
- £79 million
23andMe
2023Credential stuffing attack
- Records
- 6.9 million users
- Cost
- Ongoing litigation
Bybit
2025State sponsored crypto theft
- Records
- Not applicable
- Cost
- £1.2 billion
Marks and Spencer
2025Social engineering into the retail estate
- Records
- 9.4 million customers
- Cost
- £300 million profit impact
Every breach shares one condition. Remove it.
The data was connected to a network. Offline Secure Storage® removes the Layer 1 connection entirely, so the data is physically disconnected rather than protected by policy.
Physical hardware. Physical disconnection. Physical control. A physical location you can name.
Those four physical foundations are what make Offline Secure Storage® different from every connected platform on this page.