{"id":771016,"date":"2026-09-15T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771016\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:58:09","slug":"uk-small-firms-hit-hardest-by-cyber-attacks-hiscox-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771016\/","title":{"rendered":"UK small firms hit hardest by cyber attacks, Hiscox finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK is paying more per incident<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cyber incidents now cost organisations an average of $52,000 globally, alongside roughly 32 hours of operational disruption. In the UK specifically, the average cost per attack came in at $35,908 (\u00a326,650), a lower absolute figure than the global average but one arrived at from a much higher attack rate, meaning UK firms overall are more likely to face that cost in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK is paying more per incident Cyber incidents now cost organisations an average of $52,000 globally, alongside roughly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[254457,59,57,58,97169,50,56,254456,54,55],"class_list":["post-771016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-cyber-insurance-gap","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-hiscox","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-cyber-attacks","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}