Data Breach 2024 List. Last year, over 2,000 companies and government entities reported data breaches impacting over 400 million personal accounts. A representative for linkedin reported to business insider that this data was scraped from publicly available data on the platform.

The number of publicly reported data compromises increased by 78% in 2023 compared to 2022. Data of 750 million users was compromised and sold on the dark web, highlighting significant security risks.