Data report
The State of Data Breaches — March 2026
In March 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 1,141 data breaches exposing 54.4M records.
1,141
Breaches tracked
▲ 167 (+17%) vs Feb
54.4M
Records exposed
▲ 26.9M (+98%) vs Feb
943
Critical / high severity
775
Ransomware-linked
68% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 1,141 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| Addi | 34.5M |
| ZenBusiness | 5.1M |
| Navia Benefit Solutions, Inc. | 2.7M |
| Hallmark | 1.7M |
| Kaplan North America, LLC | 1.4M |
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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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