The figures have been taken from several publications.
The source adds the following information: "The figures represent the amount of time that the impacted organizations experienced some amount of material interruption or showed less than 100 percent productivity as a result of the attack."
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Length of impact after a ransomware attack U.S. Q1 2020- Q2 2022
As of the second quarter of 2022, the average length of interruption after ransomware attacks at businesses and organizations in the United States was 24 days. This was less than the downtime duration in previous quarter, 26 days. Overall, between the first quarter of 2020 and the fourth quarter of 2021, the average duration of the downtime after a ransomware attack had increased from 15 to 24 days.
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