Identity Theft Resource Center 2025 Annual Data Breach Report: Record Number of Data Compromises in 2025; 79 Percent Jump Over Five Years.html

Data breaches cause immediate anxiety for 60 percent of affected consumers and immediate frustration for 59 percent of affected consumers (2025)

The Identity Theft Resource Center tracks 3,322 data compromises in 2025 (2025)

The number of victim notices in 2025 is 278,827,933, a decrease of 79 percentage points from 2024 (1,367,117,021) (2025)

Fifty percent of affected consumers cite immediate financial fraud as their primary fear, and 54 percent of consumers report an increase in targeted phishing attempts after a breach (2025)

The number of data compromises in 2025 (3,322) increases by five percentage points compared to 2024 (3,152) (2025)

Data compromises in 2025 represent a 79 percent jump over five years (2025)

Seventy percent (2,324) of data breach notices in 2025 do not include attack information, compared to 65 percent (2,049) in 2024 and 45 percent (1,449) in 2023 (2023–2025)

The number of victim notices in 2025 (278,827,933) is the lowest number of victim notices since 2014 and the lowest number since the last U.S. state and territories adopted data breach laws in 2018 (2025)

The Identity Theft Resource Center sets a new record with 3,322 data compromises in 2025, up four percentage points from the previous all-time high in 2023 (3,202) (2025)

In 2025, Financial Services had 739 compromises; Healthcare had 534 compromises; Professional Services had 478 compromises; Manufacturing had 299 compromises; Education had 188 compromises (2025)

Eighty-eight percent of consumers who received a data breach notice experience at least one negative consequence after a breach; 40 percent experience an increase in phishing or scam attempts; 49 percent experience an increase in spam emails or robocalls; 40 percent experience attempted takeover of an existing account (2025)

Eighty percent of the 1,040 consumers surveyed by the Identity Theft Resource Center report having received a data breach notice in the last 12 months (2025)

Nearly 40 percent of the 1,040 consumers surveyed received three to five separate data breach notices in the past 12 months (2025)