Verizon Data Breach History

This page tracks the Verizon data breach history and cybersecurity incidents affecting Verizon (United States). BreachHistory currently indexes 12 publicly disclosed or catalogued incidents spanning 2005 through 2024, with approximately 35.2 million records reported as exposed across all indexed events. These totals may include overlapping datasets or third-party estimates and should not be interpreted as unique affected users.

The Verizon breach timeline includes major data breaches, cyber attacks, data leaks, credential exposures, API abuse, and other security incidents. Each incident provides details on the estimated records exposed, attack method, affected data types, and supporting public sources. Currently, 0 incidents are company-confirmed.

Largest Verizon Data Breaches

The largest indexed incidents include the 2017 customer data exposed (NICE Systems), the 2023 7.5M customer records on Breached Forums (vendor), and the 2017 6M users leaked — cloud server misconfiguration, along with additional historical incidents involving exposed passwords, public databases, and large-scale data scraping. Record counts originating from threat actors or leak sites should be treated as estimates unless confirmed by Verizon or a regulator. Below is the list of large data breaches:

• 2017 2017 customer data exposed (NICE Systems) — about 14.0M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2023 7.5M customer records on Breached Forums (vendor) — about 7.5M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2017 6M users leaked — cloud server misconfiguration — about 6.0M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2014 2014 — Verizon: The security issue, uncovered by research from… — about 6.0M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2016 1.5M Verizon Enterprise customers — data for sale — about 1.5M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2016 2016 — Verizon: Data breach reported, 100K records — about 100.0K records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2024 63,000+ employees — SSN and sensitive data stolen — about 63.0K records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2022 250 prepaid accounts compromised (Oct 6–10) — about 250 records exposed · Catalogued incident

What Information Was Exposed?

Depending on the incident, exposed data may include email addresses, Social Security numbers and national IDs, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, payment card and financial account data, and other personal information (PII). The exact data varies between incidents, so review each breach page before assuming your information was affected.

Verizon Data Breach 2026

At the time of this update, no Verizon data breach has been catalogued for 2026. New incidents are added as official disclosures, regulatory filings, or credible cybersecurity reports become available.

What To Do If You Were Affected

If you believe your account may have been involved in a Verizon data breach, change any reused passwords, enable multi-factor authentication (MFA), monitor your account for suspicious activity, and be cautious of phishing emails or fake breach notifications.

This Verizon breach history is maintained by BreachHistory using public disclosures, regulatory filings, security research, and clearly labelled third-party claims. For the complete breach timeline, records exposed, incident details, and AI Breach Risk Score, explore the sections on this page.