Data report
The State of Data Breaches — August 2025
In August 2025, RecentBreaches tracked 738 data breaches exposing 12.5M records.
738
Breaches tracked
▼ 23 (-3%) vs Jul
12.5M
Records exposed
▲ 6.5M (+108%) vs Jul
667
Critical / high severity
526
Ransomware-linked
71% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 738 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| Bouygues Telecom | 5.7M |
| Absolute Dental Group, LLC | 1.2M |
| Giglio | 1.0M |
| DaVita Inc. | 916K |
| Miljödata | 870K |
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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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