Data report
The State of Data Breaches — February 2026
In February 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 974 data breaches exposing 27.5M records.
974
Breaches tracked
▲ 23 (+2%) vs Jan
27.5M
Records exposed
▲ 8.6M (+46%) vs Jan
818
Critical / high severity
672
Ransomware-linked
69% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 974 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| CarGurus | 12.5M |
| Odido | 6.1M |
| TriZetto Provider Solutions | 3.4M |
| QualDerm Partners, LLC | 3.1M |
| KomikoAI | 1.1M |
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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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