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More than 17.7 billion accounts have appeared in a data breach, per Have I Been Pwned's live tracker checked in July 2026, more than double the world's population. See how many people the Identity Theft Resource Center, Verizon, and named breaches like Equifax and Yahoo actually affected.
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Roughly 278.8 million people had records exposed in U.S. data breaches during 2025, per the Identity Theft Resource Center's 2025 Annual Data Breach Report, down 79% from 2024 even as breach events hit an all-time high of 3,322.
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On July 24, 2026, the European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings that its default account settings for minors breach the Digital Services Act, exposing 16- and 17-year-olds' content to strangers by default.
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On July 14, 2026, a coalition of 42 state attorneys general led by Connecticut settled bankruptcy claims against 23andMe over its 2023 genetic data breach, with $150 million in allowed claims but only $18 million in actual recovery.
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FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is about to bring more privacy cases than it can easily track in the second half of 2026. Four enforcement actions since March, against Match/OkCupid, Kochava, Amazon and RentGrow, show what is already driving the surge.
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An average of 33.4 confirmed data breaches happened every day worldwide in 2025, calculated from Verizon's 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report. See the daily pace by country, sector, and year, and how it compares to the ITRC's US-only tracking.
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