TL;DR: Full-year 2025 breach totals were still being finalized by the Identity Theft Resource Center as of this writing, but 2024 set the pace at 3,158 tracked compromises and over 1.35 billion breach notices, and the FBI's 2025 IC3 report shows overall cybercrime complaints and losses both rose sharply year over year, to roughly $21 billion.
Full-year 2025 breach totals were still being finalized by the Identity Theft Resource Center as of this writing, but 2024 set the pace at 3,158 tracked compromises and over 1.35 billion breach notices, and the FBI's 2025 IC3 report shows overall cybercrime complaints and losses both rose sharply year over year, to roughly $21 billion.
What the Data Shows
Whatever the final 2025 breach count turns out to be, the broader trend across every recent year's data is consistent: both the money lost to cyber-enabled fraud and the scale of individual breach events keep climbing, not falling.
Why This Matters
Numbers like these are a reminder that this isn’t a rare event — it’s a routine risk. Checking whether your own information has already been exposed takes 30 seconds and costs nothing.
If this looks similar to something else you've seen, it's worth reading How Many People Are Affected by Data Breaches Each Year?.
This pattern shows up elsewhere too — see Identity Theft Statistics 2026: What the Latest Data Shows (US).
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the numbers actually show?
Full-year 2025 breach totals were still being finalized by the Identity Theft Resource Center as of this writing, but 2024 set the pace at 3,158 tracked compromises and over 1.35 billion breach notices, and the FBI's 2025 IC3 report shows overall cybercrime complaints and losses both rose sharply year over year, to roughly $21 billion.
What does this mean for you?
Whatever the final 2025 breach count turns out to be, the broader trend across every recent year's data is consistent: both the money lost to cyber-enabled fraud and the scale of individual breach events keep climbing, not falling.
Where does this data come from?
This data is drawn from Identity Theft Resource Center, a primary reporting source for fraud and identity theft data.