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Every year in the Data Breach Outlook, Kroll reviews its breach data to identify the hardest-hit industry and the trends shaping risk across sectors. Our analysis ran from June 2025 to June 2026 and found the most breached industry was financial services. This year, Kroll also examined how many individuals were affected by the breaches Kroll handled to better understand their overall scale.

Why Traditional Data Governance Fails in the Age of Autonomous Agents—and What Replaces It.

Our View from the Front Lines of Technical Assessments Kroll analyzed five years of penetration testing data. Of the trends that emerged, we focus on three in this report: the static application security testing (SAST)/software composition analysis (SCA) plateau, the need for more attention around authentication and authorization, and the security health divergence, which shows that regulation is not a reliable predictor of attack surface health.