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Outages & Breaches: July 2025 in numbers
4 significant outages (1 critical) and 7 data breaches (2 critical) were logged in July 2025. The largest breach by records was Qantas (6M). The longest outage with a known duration was Ingram Micro (144 hours). The most common outage cause was capacity (1 of 4).
Outages4same as June
Critical outages1wide impact
Downtime tracked148 hacross 3 outages with a known duration
Breaches7same as June
Critical breaches2sensitive data at scale
Records exposed10.1Mconfirmed or company-reported
Outage causes
Named attackers
Most significant incidents
- 26 Jul 2025Allianz Life breach exposes most of its US customersAllianz Life · breach · ShinyHunters · 1.5M records
- 3 Jul 2025SafePay ransomware takes Ingram Micro ordering offlineIngram Micro · outage · Cyberattack · 144 hours
- 1 Jul 2025Qantas contact-centre breach affects up to 6 millionQantas · breach · Scattered Spider · 6M records
- 31 Jul 2025Dollar Tree breach via service provider affects 2 millionDollar Tree · breach · INC Ransom (claimed) · 2M records
- 29 Jul 2025Azure East US runs out of capacityMicrosoft Azure (East US) · outage · Capacity
- 27 Jul 2025Data allegedly stolen from French warship builderNaval Group · breach · Unknown
- 25 Jul 2025Tea app leaks 72,000 selfies and ID photosTea (dating safety app) · breach · None (exposure) · 72K records
- 24 Jul 2025Starlink global outage lasts 2.5 hoursStarlink · outage · Software bug · 2.5 hours
All 4 outages
- 29 Jul 2025Azure East US runs out of capacityMicrosoft Azure (East US) · outage · Capacity
- 24 Jul 2025Starlink global outage lasts 2.5 hoursStarlink · outage · Software bug · 2.5 hours
- 14 Jul 2025Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver disappears from the internetCloudflare 1.1.1.1 · outage · Configuration change · 1 hours
- 3 Jul 2025SafePay ransomware takes Ingram Micro ordering offlineIngram Micro · outage · Cyberattack · 144 hours
All 7 data breaches
- 31 Jul 2025Dollar Tree breach via service provider affects 2 millionDollar Tree · breach · INC Ransom (claimed) · 2M records
- 27 Jul 2025Data allegedly stolen from French warship builderNaval Group · breach · Unknown
- 26 Jul 2025Allianz Life breach exposes most of its US customersAllianz Life · breach · ShinyHunters · 1.5M records
- 25 Jul 2025Tea app leaks 72,000 selfies and ID photosTea (dating safety app) · breach · None (exposure) · 72K records
- 16 Jul 2025Louis Vuitton links regional breaches to one attackLouis Vuitton · breach · ShinyHunters
- 1 Jul 2025Qantas contact-centre breach affects up to 6 millionQantas · breach · Scattered Spider · 6M records
- 1 Jul 2025Kelly Benefits breach affects 553,000Kelly Benefits · breach · Unknown · 554K records
2025 year to date
Incidents YTD85January to July 2025
Outages YTD35significant outages
Breaches YTD50data breaches
Critical YTD16outages and breaches
Records exposed YTD90.1Mconfirmed or company-reported
| Month | Outages | Breaches | Critical | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 5 | 9 | 0 | 14 |
| Feb | 6 | 6 | 2 | 26 |
| Mar | 5 | 5 | 1 | 36 |
| Apr | 9 | 9 | 3 | 54 |
| May | 2 | 7 | 3 | 63 |
| Jun | 4 | 7 | 4 | 74 |
| Jul | 4 | 7 | 3 | 85 |
| Total | 35 | 50 | 16 | 85 |
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Outages & Breaches: July 2025 in numbers”, The Daily Tech Wire,published July 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/reports/2025-07/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
The underlying data for every month is in the CSV download.