43% -- share of breaches involving shadow ai for IBM security breaches (2025)

Name: Share Of Breaches Involving Shadow AI Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-25

2025 · shadowlock.io

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43%

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2025

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IBM security breaches

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shadowlock.io Primary Tier C

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Confidence: 23/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl

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ShadowLock Blog: Shadow AI Detection Insights

Shadow AI, decoded. Field guides on detecting unauthorized AI usage, protecting sensitive data, and running AI governance that stands up to an audit. The MSP AI Governance Brief: Issue 03 A cyber carrier starts scoring AI governance from telemetry, IBM finds shadow AI in 43% of breaches, AI notetake…

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IBM security breaches: 43% share of breaches involving shadow ai. Source: shadowlock.io (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ibm-shadow-ai-43-percent-breaches

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