
H1 2026 Data Breach Report: 101 Breaches, 1 Billion Records
A billion records in six months. Our first half-yearly breach coverage report: what entered the index, what happened out there,

A billion records in six months. Our first half-yearly breach coverage report: what entered the index, what happened out there,

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Ask how big a data breach is and the two honest answers are thirteen times apart. Median 1.14 million records,

24 hours, 756 users, 431 teams, 24 challenges, one person running all of it. The making of Watchlist CTF 2026:

You can change a leaked password in a minute. Try changing your date of birth. Five things a breach exposes

Verify a domain you own once, take the key from the dashboard, and one POST returns every breach touching your

Four field notes from reading 516 password-leaking breaches, an honest argument with the sceptic about single points of failure, and

516 of 783 catalogued breaches leaked passwords. 83 stored them in plaintext, 206 with weak hashing. At least 56% recoverable.

Nine breaches, 33.8 million records, a 29-day median delay, no passwords: August 2026 in the XposedOrNot index, and why it

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Email is in all 779 breaches we index, without exception. Why it is the join key attackers use, and five

Entertainment leads by breach count (220 of 777), IT leads by records (4.65B). Why the ranking flips, what neither list











