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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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94+
Countries
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2026 Data Breaches Year-to-Date (848 indexed)

high · tech · May 20, 2026

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Defender Link Following Vulnerability — Microsoft Defender contains a link following vulnerability that allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 6 days, 22 hours ago
high · tech · May 20, 2026

Microsoft DirectX

Microsoft DirectX NULL Byte Overwrite Vulnerability — Microsoft DirectX contains a NULL byte overwrite vulnerability in the QuickTime Movie Parser Filter in quartz.dll in DirectShow which could allow remote attackers to

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 6 days, 22 hours ago
critical · other · May 20, 2026

GitHub

Github, which hosts code for more than 100 million developers worldwide, confirmed the breach on social media after TeamPCP advertised stolen source code on a cybercrime forum.

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 6 days, 22 hours ago
medium · other · May 19, 2026

Verizon DBIR

Verizon's "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" ("DBIR") finds that exploits are now involved in 31% of initial access for breaches, while patching lags too far behind the bad guys.

critical · government · May 18, 2026

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts a

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 1 week, 1 day ago
medium · other · May 18, 2026

Grafana

Grafana confirmed a GitHub token breach that exposed source code, but said no customer data or systems were affected. Grafana Labs confirmed a security incident after the extortion group Coinbase Cartel listed it on a le

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 1 week, 1 day ago
critical · retail · May 18, 2026

Public Amazon bucket

A hotel check-in system exposed over 1 million passports, IDs, and selfies online due to a misconfigured cloud storage bucket. A security lapse in the Reqrea’s Tabiq hotel check-in system exposed over 1 million pas

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 1 week, 1 day ago