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CONTEXT · U.S. DATA COMPROMISES · SOURCE: ITRC
A record pace of breaches, and the least disclosed on record
First half of 2026An outside benchmark: Identity Theft Resource Center’s count of publicly reported U.S. data compromises. A different measure than this index’s primary-source cost ledger — a national count of breach events, not a total of dollars — shown for scale and never summed with the record.
1,803
U.S. data compromises
first half of 2026, on pace for a record ~3,600
471M
victim notices
more than all of 2025
24%
of notices named an attack vector
the lowest transparency ITRC has ever recorded
2025 set a record at 3,322 U.S. compromises; ITRC has tracked more than 25,200 over its 20-year history.
ITRC counts publicly reported compromises from news, government, and company sources; figures can be revised as more is disclosed. A count of events and notices, never a dollar figure and never merged with this ledger.
Source: Identity Theft Resource Center · H1 2026 Data Breach Report →