Data report
The State of Data Breaches — December 2025
In December 2025, RecentBreaches tracked 1,041 data breaches exposing 81.0M records.
1,041
Breaches tracked
▲ 228 (+28%) vs Nov
81.0M
Records exposed
▲ 3.9M (+5%) vs Nov
946
Critical / high severity
780
Ransomware-linked
75% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 1,041 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| SoundCloud | 29.8M |
| Prosper Marketplace, Inc. | 13.1M |
| Raaga | 10.2M |
| Episource, LLC | 6.6M |
| Pass'Sport | 6.4M |
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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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