Data report
The State of Data Breaches — August 2026
In August 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 2,094 data breaches exposing 2.2M records.
2,094
Breaches tracked
▲ 604 (+41%) vs Jul
2.2M
Records exposed
▼ 61.6M (-97%) vs Jul
1,810
Critical / high severity
1,495
Ransomware-linked
71% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 1,500 |
| Manufacturing | 99 |
| Not Found | 92 |
| Technology | 82 |
| Professional Services | 73 |
| Healthcare | 70 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| Brinks Home | 732K |
| Heights Finance Holdings | 486K |
| Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program | 185K |
| Heights Finance Holdings Co | 183K |
| Paylogix, LLC | 64K |
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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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