Data report
The State of Data Breaches — July 2026
In July 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 1,491 data breaches exposing 63.8M records.
1,491
Breaches tracked
▲ 292 (+24%) vs Jun
63.8M
Records exposed
▼ 185.0M (-74%) vs Jun
1,290
Critical / high severity
1,014
Ransomware-linked
68% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 901 |
| Manufacturing | 93 |
| Technology | 80 |
| Not Found | 69 |
| Business Services | 49 |
| Healthcare | 48 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| Paidwork | 23.3M |
| DentaQuest LLC | 15.0M |
| AssuranceAmerica | 6.9M |
| Odido | 6.2M |
| BH Security | 4.9M |
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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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