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Type of data compromised in worldwide data breaches from 2024 to 2025

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July 2025

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2024 to 2025

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PII - Personal identifiable information.

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The statistic has been compiled from several reports by the source.

According to the source, the latest study was based on the research of 600 organizations in 17 industries in 16 countries and regions impacted by data breaches between March 2024 and February 2025. The breaches ranged from 2,960 to 113,620 compromised records. In total, 3,470 security and C-suite business leaders with firsthand knowledge of the data breach incidents were interviewed.

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Global type of data compromised 2024-2025

Published by
Christy Tila,
Jan 18, 2026

Customers' personal identifiable information (PII) was the most common type of data compromised in worldwide data breaches. Between March 2024 and February 2025, ** percent of compromised records fell into this category. The second-most breached kind of data was employee PII with ** percent of all breached records.

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