Data report
The State of Data Breaches — September 2026
In September 2026, RecentBreaches tracked 1,491 data breaches exposing 161.8M records.
1,491
Breaches tracked
▼ 603 (-29%) vs Aug
161.8M
Records exposed
▲ 159.6M (+7161%) vs Aug
1,230
Critical / high severity
1,085
Ransomware-linked
73% of breaches
Breaches by sector
| Sector | Breaches |
|---|---|
| Other | 1,247 |
| Not Found | 40 |
| Manufacturing | 36 |
| Technology | 34 |
| Professional Services | 30 |
| Healthcare | 24 |
Biggest breaches this month
| Organization | Records exposed |
|---|---|
| IDScan.net | 153.0M |
| CenterPoint Energy | 7.5M |
| DriveWealth, LLC | 526K |
| Commission de la construction du Québec | 350K |
| Ambry Genetics | 225K |
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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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