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Outages & Breaches: July 2026 in numbers
5 significant outages (0 critical) and 7 data breaches (5 critical) were logged in July 2026. The largest breach by records was SplitVPN (58M). The longest outage with a known duration was Google Cloud (14.9 hours). The most common outage cause was unknown (2 of 5). 1 of the incidents mainly affected the UK.
Outages5▲ 3 vs June
Critical outages0wide impact
Downtime tracked47 hacross 5 outages with a known duration
Breaches7same as June
Critical breaches5sensitive data at scale
Records exposed99Mconfirmed or company-reported
Outage causes
Named attackers
Most significant incidents
- 29 Jul 2026UK education and police legal database records stolenUK DfE / PNLD · breach · ExfilSquad · 740K records
- 28 Jul 2026Medical billing vendor MCBS exposes 1.3 million patientsMCBS · breach · PEAR · 1.3M records
- 22 Jul 2026Paidwork breach exposes 23 million usersPaidwork · breach · Unknown · 23M records
- 8 Jul 2026KDDI telecom breach affects up to 12 millionKDDI · breach · Unknown · 12M records
- 6 Jul 2026Masimo notifies nearly 4 million of breachMasimo · breach · Unknown · 4M records
- 29 Jul 2026SplitVPN exposes 58 million connection logsSplitVPN · breach · None (exposure) · 58M records
- 28 Jul 2026T-Mobile outage across the UST-Mobile · outage · Unknown · 7.1 hours
- 24 Jul 2026PlayStation Network down for nearly 13 hoursPlayStation Network · outage · Unknown · 12.7 hours
All 5 outages
- 28 Jul 2026T-Mobile outage across the UST-Mobile · outage · Unknown · 7.1 hours
- 24 Jul 2026PlayStation Network down for nearly 13 hoursPlayStation Network · outage · Unknown · 12.7 hours
- 24 Jul 2026AWS Oregon network failure hits Apple Pay, Reddit and DoorDashAWS us-west-2 · outage · Network · 1.3 hours
- 15 Jul 2026Google Cloud power and cooling failureGoogle Cloud · outage · Power / cooling · 14.9 hours
- 14 Jul 2026Control-plane update cuts Google Cloud VMware Engine trafficGoogle Cloud VMware Engine · outage · Configuration change · 10.7 hours
All 7 data breaches
- 29 Jul 2026UK education and police legal database records stolenUK DfE / PNLD · breach · ExfilSquad · 740K records
- 29 Jul 2026SplitVPN exposes 58 million connection logsSplitVPN · breach · None (exposure) · 58M records
- 28 Jul 2026Medical billing vendor MCBS exposes 1.3 million patientsMCBS · breach · PEAR · 1.3M records
- 22 Jul 2026Paidwork breach exposes 23 million usersPaidwork · breach · Unknown · 23M records
- 8 Jul 2026KDDI telecom breach affects up to 12 millionKDDI · breach · Unknown · 12M records
- 8 Jul 2026Accenture confirms breach after source code theft claimAccenture · breach · Unknown
- 6 Jul 2026Masimo notifies nearly 4 million of breachMasimo · breach · Unknown · 4M records
2026 year to date
Incidents YTD75January to July 2026
Outages YTD25significant outages
Breaches YTD50data breaches
Critical YTD34outages and breaches
Records exposed YTD223Mconfirmed or company-reported
| Month | Outages | Breaches | Critical | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 3 | 7 | 5 | 10 |
| Feb | 6 | 7 | 5 | 23 |
| Mar | 2 | 7 | 5 | 32 |
| Apr | 3 | 7 | 4 | 42 |
| May | 4 | 8 | 6 | 54 |
| Jun | 2 | 7 | 4 | 63 |
| Jul | 5 | 7 | 5 | 75 |
| Total | 25 | 50 | 34 | 75 |
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Outages & Breaches: July 2026 in numbers”, The Daily Tech Wire,published July 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/reports/2026-07/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
The underlying data for every month is in the CSV download.