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2026 Data Breaches Year-to-Date

2026 continues the year-over-year growth trend in confirmed disclosures. The list below updates as new breaches are reported by Verizon DBIR partners and major security news outlets.

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2026 Data Breaches Year-to-Date (1185 indexed)

critical · finance · May 7, 2026

CISOs

By now, executive boards across industries understand that cyberattacks can be costly. What they often lack, however, is a clear view of which risks pose the biggest threat to their business and why certain investments n

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 1 month, 4 weeks ago
high · tech · May 6, 2026

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability — Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal (aka Captive Portal) service that can allow an un

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 1 month, 4 weeks ago
high · finance · May 6, 2026

Poisoned truth

As enterprises rush to deploy internal LLMs, AI copilots, and autonomous agents, most security conversations focus on familiar threats: prompt injection, jailbreaks, model abuse, and data exfiltration. But some security

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 1 month, 4 weeks ago
critical · tech · May 6, 2026

Vimeo data breach

Sergiu Gatlan reports: The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Hav

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 1 month, 4 weeks ago
medium · education · May 5, 2026

Student

A 23-year-old university student in Taiwan was arrested for interfering with the TETRA communication system used by the country's high-speed railway network (THSR). [...]

medium · tech · May 5, 2026

Vimeo data breach

The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. [...]

medium · tech · May 5, 2026

Edge browser leaves passwords

A Norwegian researcher has identified an issue with Microsoft Edge’s Password Manager that could be a serious concern for businesses. Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning found that passwords are being saved within the bro

critical · tech · May 5, 2026

We Scanned 1 Million Exposed

While the software industry has made genuine strides over the past few decades to deliver products securely, the furious pace of AI adoption is putting that progress at risk. Businesses are moving fast to self-host LLM i