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Outages & Breaches: June 2025 in numbers

4 significant outages (1 critical) and 7 data breaches (3 critical) were logged in June 2025. The largest breach by records was Aflac (22.7M). The longest outage with a known duration was Heroku (23.3 hours). The most common outage cause was configuration change (1 of 4).

Outages4▲ 2 vs May
Critical outages1wide impact
Downtime tracked43 hacross 4 outages with a known duration
Breaches7same as May
Critical breaches3sensitive data at scale
Records exposed39.5Mconfirmed or company-reported

Outage causes

Configuration change1
Third-party dependency1
Software bug1
Unknown1

Named attackers

Scattered Spider2
INC Ransom1
INC-linked1
Qilin1

Most significant incidents

All 4 outages

All 7 data breaches

2025 year to date

Incidents YTD74January to June 2025
Outages YTD31significant outages
Breaches YTD43data breaches
Critical YTD13outages and breaches
Records exposed YTD80Mconfirmed or company-reported
MonthOutagesBreachesCriticalRunning total
Jan59014
Feb66226
Mar55136
Apr99354
May27363
Jun47474
Total31431374

Cite this

Nuffield Consulting, “Outages & Breaches: June 2025 in numbers”, The Daily Tech Wire,published June 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/reports/2025-06/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).

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