U.S. data breaches hit record high but victim numbers decline

The number of US data “compromises” in 2025 reached a record high of 3332, a 5% increase on the previous year, according to new figures from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

The non-profit has been tracking these figures since 2005. In its telling, a “compromise” could mean a breach, an accidental exposure or a leak of previously stolen data. The figure for 2025 is 4% higher than the previous all-time record of 3202 in 2023.

The good news is that there were far fewer individual victims in 2025 than 2024: 279 million versus 1.4 billion. This is largely due to the lack of the “mega breaches” we saw two years ago that impacted Snowflake customers.

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