Data report
The State of Data Breaches — August 2025
In August 2025, RecentBreaches tracked 531 data breaches exposing 8.3M records.
531
Breaches tracked
▲ 26 (+5%) vs Jul
8.3M
Records exposed
▲ 6.6M (+381%) vs Jul
528
Critical / high severity
526
Ransomware-linked
99% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 531 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| Bouygues Telecom | 5.7M |
| Giglio | 1.0M |
| Miljödata | 870K |
| BreachForums (2025) | 672K |
| Artists&Clients | 95K |
Are you in any of these breaches?
Check your email against 15.4B breach records, free — run a scan on GalaxyWarden.
Check your email against 15.4B breach records, free — run a scan on GalaxyWarden.
Methodology: figures are aggregated from breaches tracked in the RecentBreaches database, grouped by incident month. Free to cite with attribution to RecentBreaches.
Explore the full dataset: all breaches · companies · data studies.