The Breachies 2025: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year

The Breachies 2025 commemorates the year’s most noteworthy data breaches with a tongue‑in‑cheek awards slate, highlighting how some incidents exposed far more data than others. The winners include The Say Something Without Saying Anything Award for Mixpanel, The We Still Told You So Award for Discord, The Tea for Two Award for Tea Dating Advice and TeaOnHer, and several others such as Blue Shield of California for The Just Stop Using Tracking Tech Award and PowerSchool for The Hacker’s Hall Pass Award.

The list also features TransUnion, Microsoft, Gravy Analytics, Teslamate, PACER, Catwatchful, Plex, Troy Hunt’s Mailing List, and a (Dis)honorable Mentions category. The piece argues that privacy‑by‑design and data minimisation could lessen the harm, noting that many breaches result from collecting more data than necessary. Read more at EFF, according to EFF.