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Outages & Breaches: February 2026 in numbers

6 significant outages (1 critical) and 7 data breaches (4 critical) were logged in February 2026. The largest breach by records was CarGurus (12.4M). The longest outage with a known duration was Microsoft Azure (West US) (20.4 hours). The most common outage cause was government shutdown (1 of 6).

Most significant incidents

• 28 Feb 2026Iran's 88-day internet shutdown during military strikesIran (national internet) · outage · Government shutdowncritical
• 24 Feb 2026CarGurus attack exposes 12.4 million usersCarGurus · breach · ShinyHunters · 12.4M recordscritical
• 19 Feb 2026France's national bank account registry breachedFICOBA (France) · breach · Unknown · 1.2M recordscritical
• 12 Feb 2026Odido breach exposes 6.2 million Dutch customersOdido · breach · Unknown · 6.2M recordscritical
• 1 Feb 2026Panera data on 5.1 million accounts leakedPanera Bread · breach · ShinyHunters · 5.1M recordscritical
• 24 Feb 2026Wynn Resorts employee data stolenWynn Resorts · breach · ShinyHuntersmajor
• 20 Feb 2026Cloudflare software bug causes six-hour disruptionCloudflare · outage · Software bug · 6.1 hoursmajor
• 18 Feb 2026Fintech Figure files stolen, nearly a million customers affectedFigure Technology · breach · ShinyHunters · 1M recordsmajor

All 6 outages

• 28 Feb 2026Iran's 88-day internet shutdown during military strikesIran (national internet) · outage · Government shutdowncritical
• 20 Feb 2026Cloudflare software bug causes six-hour disruptionCloudflare · outage · Software bug · 6.1 hoursmajor
• 10 Feb 2026Microsoft 365 admin centre unreachable for North American adminsMicrosoft 365 admin center · outage · Unknownminor
• 7 Feb 2026Transformer failure cuts power to an Azure West US datacentreMicrosoft Azure (West US) · outage · Power / fire · 20.4 hoursmajor
• 7 Feb 2026Ransomware takes payments platform BridgePay offlineBridgePay · outage · Cyberattackmajor
• 2 Feb 2026Azure policy workflow breaks VM and identity operationsMicrosoft Azure (multi-region) · outage · Configuration change · 6.5 hoursmajor

All 7 data breaches

• 24 Feb 2026Wynn Resorts employee data stolenWynn Resorts · breach · ShinyHuntersmajor
• 24 Feb 2026CarGurus attack exposes 12.4 million usersCarGurus · breach · ShinyHunters · 12.4M recordscritical
• 20 Feb 2026PayPal loan app bug exposed personal data for monthsPayPal · breach · None (bug)minor
• 19 Feb 2026France's national bank account registry breachedFICOBA (France) · breach · Unknown · 1.2M recordscritical
• 18 Feb 2026Fintech Figure files stolen, nearly a million customers affectedFigure Technology · breach · ShinyHunters · 1M recordsmajor
• 12 Feb 2026Odido breach exposes 6.2 million Dutch customersOdido · breach · Unknown · 6.2M recordscritical
• 1 Feb 2026Panera data on 5.1 million accounts leakedPanera Bread · breach · ShinyHunters · 5.1M recordscritical