UK Police National Database
100K officer and staff identities exposed
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.
100K officer and staff identities exposed
SharePoint breach compromised 200 government accounts
Chinese state-backed hackers exploited zero-day flaw (CVE-2026-22769) in RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines since mid-2024 using ghost NICs for evasion
Payment card data stolen from 1,284 accounts
Current, former, and prospective franchisees' detailed application packages compromised in Canada and U.S.
Cyberattack on heart of London transport network; cost £39 million; two hackers sentenced
Police and government contacts published on dark web
11.7M government portal accounts compromised
The North Carolina Ports Authority has confirmed that a cyberattack disrupted IT systems and slowed operations at Port of Wilmington, Port of Morehead City, and Charlotte Inland Port. [...]
Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) says that hackers used social engineering on three of its employees to gain access to and steal corporate data stored on their machines. [...]
24B stolen credential records publicly exposed
1.8M records with biometrics and SSNs stolen
300K patient records exposed via vendor account
1.8M patient records and biometric data stolen
Massive data breach involving customer data theft and extortion
Data breach resulting in $1.25M settlement with Massachusetts regulator
Cyber-attack exposed medical records including Medicare numbers and pathology results
Financial institution fined for serious data protection failures and security shortcomings
Data leaks exposed over 11 million gaming account credentials including login information
Exposed personal information of 700,000 state residents due to inadvertent data exposure
Healthcare records compromised by OROVA actor
Ransomware breach by INC_RANSOM group
HSIN threat intel platform breached for weeks
3TB PHI and payment data stolen via ransomware