Even as companies devote more resources to cybersecurity, the number of reported data breaches involving consumers' personal data is on pace to surpass last year's record.
More than 471 million million victim notices were associated with data compromises in the first half of 2026, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit that assists identity-theft victims and tracks publicly reported data breaches. A cyber incident that occurred at education tool Canvas accounted for more than half of those notices, at 275 million.
The half-year tally compares with 297.5 million notices issued in all of 2025, the ITRC report shows. The number of incidents reached 1,803 in the first half of the year, up from 1,732 during the same period in 2025. If the second half of the year is as active, the final tally for 2026 will eclipse the 3,321 security incidents reported for all of last year.
"We continue to see this ever-increasing number of data breaches," said James Lee, president of the ITRC. "That does not appear to be slowing down."
