Data report
The State of Data Breaches — May 2026
In May 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 1,261 data breaches exposing 309.4M records.
1,261
Breaches tracked
▲ 91 (+8%) vs Apr
309.4M
Records exposed
▲ 261.2M (+543%) vs Apr
1,054
Critical / high severity
788
Ransomware-linked
62% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 1,261 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| Instructure | 280.0M |
| Carnival Corporation | 6.0M |
| Antel | 5.8M |
| Charter | 4.9M |
| B1ack's Stash Marketplace Releases 4.6M Stolen Credit Cards | 4.6M |
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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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