Data report
The State of Data Breaches — January 2026
In January 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 689 data breaches exposing 15.5M records.
689
Breaches tracked
▼ 98 (-12%) vs Dec
15.5M
Records exposed
▼ 31.5M (-67%) vs Dec
683
Critical / high severity
681
Ransomware-linked
99% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 689 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| 6.2M | |
| Panera Bread | 5.1M |
| Betterment | 1.4M |
| Figure | 967K |
| Provecho | 713K |
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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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