Data report
The State of Data Breaches — April 2026
In April 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 828 data breaches exposing 46.8M records.
828
Breaches tracked
▲ 41 (+5%) vs Mar
46.8M
Records exposed
▼ 545K (-1%) vs Mar
810
Critical / high severity
813
Ransomware-linked
98% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 828 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| McGraw Hill | 13.5M |
| Pitney Bowes | 8.2M |
| Carnival | 7.5M |
| ADT | 5.5M |
| Medtronic | 3.8M |
Are you in any of these breaches?
Check your email against 15.4B breach records, free — run a scan on GalaxyWarden.
Check your email against 15.4B breach records, free — run a scan on GalaxyWarden.
Methodology: figures are aggregated from breaches tracked in the RecentBreaches database, grouped by incident month. Free to cite with attribution to RecentBreaches.
Explore the full dataset: all breaches · companies · data studies.