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2026's Mega-Breaches Expose Hundreds of Millions of Records
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Summary
- The education platform Instructure (Canvas) suffered the largest education-sector breach on record, with about 275 million student, teacher and staff records stolen by the group ShinyHunters.
- NYC Health + Hospitals was hit in one of 2026's biggest healthcare breaches, exposing biometric fingerprints and palm prints for at least 1.8 million people.
- Other 2026 incidents left 183 million Gmail credentials exposed and Spectrum-linked data on some 13 million people circulating.
The question
Organizations are losing the battle to protect personal data from mass breaches.
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