Data report
The State of Data Breaches — January 2025
In January 2025, RecentBreaches tracked 896 data breaches exposing 85.5M records.
896
Breaches tracked
▼ 43 (-5%) vs Dec
85.5M
Records exposed
▲ 49.9M (+140%) vs Dec
815
Critical / high severity
658
Ransomware-linked
73% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 896 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| Stealer Logs, Jan 2025 | 71.0M |
| Scholastic | 4.2M |
| Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP | 3.4M |
| Thermomix Recipe World Forum | 3.1M |
| Texas Tech Health University Sciences Center El Paso | 868K |
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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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