Skip to main content

Cybersecurity statistics / Ransom Payments

54% of organizations affected by ransomware pay a ransom.

PublisherProofpoint
Report2026 AI-Era Ransomware Report
Published22 July 2026
TopicsRansom Payments, Ransomware, Extortion

Published by Proofpoint in 2026 AI-Era Ransomware Report, 22 July 2026. The figure is taken from the report as published; the full methodology is in the source.

View the original report

Related statistics

93% of US organizations affected by ransomware pay a ransom.
Proofpoint, 25/07/2026
37% of organizations that paid a ransom face a second extortion demand.
Proofpoint, 25/07/2026
No ransom payments were confirmed in H1 2026 in the education sector, and five entities confirmed they had not met their hackers’ demands.
Comparitech, 25/07/2026
48% of victims whose data was encrypted pay the ransom, roughly in line with a four-year average of about 50%.
Sophos, 18/07/2026
Median ransom payment is $769,000, down from $1,000,000 the previous year.
Sophos, 18/07/2026
In H1 2026, one government entity confirmed it paid a ransom while 16 government entities said they did not pay.
Comparitech, 19/07/2026

Get the newsletter

Weekly cybersecurity statistics by email.