The Fraudian Slip Podcast - 2025 Annual Data Breach Report: Takeaways and Key Findings - S7E2

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Welcome to the Fraudian Slip, the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC’s) podcast, where we talk about all things identity theft, fraud and scams that impact people and businesses. Last week, we published our 2025 Annual Data Breach Report by ITRC.  

ITRC President James E. Lee presented the findings at the Identity, Authentication and the Road Ahead Identity Policy Forum, hosted by the Better Identity Coalition, the FIDO Alliance and the ITRC. The 2025 Annual Data Breach Report by ITRC looks at the number of data compromises, the root cause of the compromises, the types of data compromised, trends, solutions and much more.   

Some of the Top Trends from the 2025 Annual Data Breach Report Include:  

• The number of data compromises in 2025 (3,322) increased by five percentage points compared to 2024 (3,152). The ITRC set a new record for the number of data compromises tracked in a year, up four percentage points from the previous all-time high in 2023 (3,202). It is also a 79 percent jump over five years.   
• The number of victim notices (278,827,933) decreased by 79 percentage points from 2024 (1,367,117,021). The massive decrease in victim notices is due to the lack of “mega-breaches” in 2025, unlike 2024. It is the lowest number of victim notices since 2014 and the lowest number since the last U.S. state and territories adopted data breach laws in 2018.  
• Seventy (70) percent (2,324) of data breach notices did not include attack information, compared to 65 percent (2,049) in 2024 and 45 percent (1,449) in 2023. In 2020, nearly every organization that suffered a breach provided clear details on how it happened. This trend has worsened every year since 2020, leaving people and institutions unable to assess their own level of risk or take the necessary steps to protect themselves.  

Listen to a breakdown of all of the findings above. You can download a copy of the 2025 Annual Data Breach Report by ITRC at our website, www.idtheftcenter.org/reports, or click here. 

Contact the ITRC 

If you think you have been the victim of identity theft,  fraud or a scam, or want to avoid becoming a victim, you can speak with an ITRC expert advisor toll-free by phone or text (888.400.5530), chat live on the web or send us an email during our normal business hours (Monday-Friday 6 a.m.-5 p.m. PT). Just visit www.idtheftcenter.org to get started.  

Be sure to like this episode and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts. We will return next week with another episode of our sister podcast, the Weekly Breach Breakdown, and next month with another edition of the Fraudian Slip.