More than 1,700 Data Breaches Impact 165,745,452 Victims in the US in the First Half of 2025: Identity Theft Resource Center

Nearly half of the US population has been impacted by data breaches in the first half of 2025 alone, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

The ITRC says 1,732 data compromises were reported in the US in H1 2025, which impacted 165,745,452 individuals.

“Analysis of data from the first six months of the year reveals a landscape dominated by cyberattacks, with supply chain vulnerabilities persisting as a major threat vector. While the total number of compromises has not dramatically outpaced previous years, the impact on victims remains severe.”

There are currently around 342 million people in the US, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The ITRC says there’s been a rise in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered phishing attacks, which are more difficult to detect, and other new threats to personal information.

“The introduction of repackaged and recirculated personal information – PCD (previously compromised data) – into the risk environment represents a significant new threat to organizations that are vulnerable to the use of stolen logins and passwords to gain access to mission-critical systems for ransom attacks and/or data exfiltration. The recent discovery of an unsecured cloud environment with more than 16 billion logins and passwords aggregated into a single database is an example of PCD.”

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