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$670,000 -- additional cost per breach incident from shadow ai for Organizations with shadow AI usage (2025)
Shadow AI usage adds $670,000 per data breach incident according to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025 report.
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https://www.arkeoai.com/ai-in-business/ai-implementation-consulting-roi ↗
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Organizations with shadow AI usage: $670,000 additional cost per breach incident from shadow ai. Source: IBM (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ibm-shadow-ai-incident-cost
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