Data report
The State of Data Breaches — April 2026
In April 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 1,170 data breaches exposing 48.2M records.
1,170
Breaches tracked
▲ 29 (+3%) vs Mar
48.2M
Records exposed
▼ 6.2M (-11%) vs Mar
1,004
Critical / high severity
813
Ransomware-linked
69% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 1,170 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| McGraw Hill | 13.5M |
| Pitney Bowes | 8.2M |
| Carnival | 7.5M |
| ADT | 5.5M |
| Medtronic | 3.8M |
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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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