Data report
The State of Data Breaches — July 2026
In July 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 862 data breaches exposing 36.8M records.
862
Breaches tracked
▲ 89 (+12%) vs Jun
36.8M
Records exposed
▼ 197.4M (-84%) vs Jun
840
Critical / high severity
846
Ransomware-linked
98% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 425 |
| Technology | 57 |
| Manufacturing | 57 |
| Not Found | 50 |
| Business Services | 49 |
| Healthcare | 39 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| Paidwork | 23.3M |
| AssuranceAmerica | 6.9M |
| Odido | 6.2M |
| Nextcloud | 367K |
| Union County, Ohio | 45K |
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Methodology: figures are aggregated from breaches tracked in the RecentBreaches database, grouped by incident month. Free to cite with attribution to RecentBreaches.
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