We are joining 40+ consumer, civil rights, housing, and privacy organizations in urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to maintain and continue its Consumer Complaint Intake System in the face of pressures to eliminate this vital consumer protection tool.
Nearly One Million People Affected Across 75 Breach Incidents
Our May 2025 analysis of data breach notifications reveals another active month in the ongoing challenge of protecting consumer data. We documented 75 distinct breach incidents between May 7 and June 6, affecting 992,863 people across various sectors.
June by the Numbers
During the reporting period, we tracked:
Our May 2025 update—the fifth this year—brings our complete data through May along with this focused analysis of Q1 breach statistics. The first quarter saw 876 new breach notifications representing 658 distinct security incidents that impacted over 32 million people. This release also includes major database enhancements with completely refactored grouping algorithms and improved categorization models, making our breach tracking and analysis more accurate than ever.
We're proud to stand with Consumer Reports in supporting Senator Becker's SB 361 to improve the registration and transparency requirements of the California Delete Act.
If you're a survivor of domestic violence, both federal and state laws offer important privacy protections to help keep you safe in your housing.
Federal protections apply nationwide:
- The Violence Against Women Act prevents federally-funded housing providers from sharing your survivor status or documentation you provide.¹ These records cannot be entered into shared databases where an abuser might find them.
State and Local Protections
It depends. A landlord may introduce facial recognition or biometric entry systems, but requiring you to use them could violate federal, state, or local privacy, tenant rights, or anti-discrimination laws.
Federal Protections
Landlord monitoring can cross the line into illegal surveillance when a landlord violates a tenant's reasonable expectation of privacy or a specific federal or state law.
Federal Protections