Data report
The State of Data Breaches — May 2025
In May 2025, RecentBreaches tracked 728 data breaches exposing 17.0M records.
728
Breaches tracked
▼ 48 (-6%) vs Apr
17.0M
Records exposed
▼ 2.1B (-99%) vs Apr
676
Critical / high severity
504
Ransomware-linked
69% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 728 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| Operation Endgame 2.0 | 15.4M |
| Ualabee | 472K |
| LexisNexis Risk Solutions | 364K |
| BayMark Health Services, Inc. | 282K |
| Creams Cafe | 160K |
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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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