Exere Breach Ledger

// The trend

One direction

Tracked U.S. data compromises per year (ITRC). 2026 shows the first half only.

2025 set the all-time record. H1 2026 alone would rank as a full year a decade ago.

// Recent disclosures

The record keeps itself

Drawn from public breach notifications. Each row is an organization formally admitting it lost custody of personal data.

Reported	Organization	What was exposed	People affected

SAMPLE ROWS — run scripts/ingest-breaches.mjs to populate from public notification feeds.

// Two custody models

Whose building is your data in?

Their server, their breach

Your files, photos, and backups sit in someone else's building, guarded by someone else's staff, exposed through someone else's mistakes. When it goes wrong, you find out from a notification letter — one of the 471 million.

Your hardware, your custody

A firewall you own at the edge of your network. Storage you own behind it, with backups that are tested, not assumed. Nothing upstream to breach, no third party to trust, nothing to rent forever.

// Onsite networking

We build the second model

Exere installs and manages owned infrastructure in the DMV area: an OPNsense firewall at your edge, TrueNAS storage with verified restores behind it, for homes and small businesses. One visit to install — and it's taught to you, never a black box.

Onsite networking services →

Flat-rate installs. Monthly management optional for businesses, with tested restores and patching included.

// The digest

The monthly ledger, by email

Counts, notable disclosures, one practical takeaway. No tracking pixels; unsubscribe is one click.

We keep your address for sending this digest and nothing else. It is never sold, shared, or profiled — that would be a strange thing for this particular page to do.