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January 2026: BreachRisk™ for Business Release Notes

Updates from our January 2026 update period.

Updated today

From 01 January 2026 - 31 January 2026 we are rolling out various usability improvements along with a few significant display adjustments. We'll update this article as the updates are rolled out.

This rollout is iterative in nature and involves many small adjustments. This article will be periodically updated as changes become live.

Release Highlights

  • All-new elevated light and dark themes. Enhanced readability and consistency reflecting BreachBits® emerging role in the LLOYD'S market.

  • Enhanced data browsing. More functionality for our data-heavy dashboard features such as tables, filters, downloads, trends, and inspectors.

Dashboard Presentation

Factors related to the way the dashboard presents insights to the user, and the way users can interact with the dashboard.

Layout and Display

  • All new 2026 theme delivers better readability, contrast, clarity, and consistency.

    • Non-critical item colors muted to avoid potential alert fatigue

    • Critical items presented with more distinct colors

    • High, Medium, Low colors updated with a more modern color tone/temperature.

    • Revised dark theme and code typography for data-oriented power users.

  • Heading areas of each page have been adjusted to help users better navigate.

  • Various text and positioning adjustments

  • Updated various icons

  • My BreachRisk™ layout is more compact to highlight summary statuses.

  • Selecting the Perimeter, Social, Cloud, or Exposure card from My BreachRisk will navigate directly to the related details page.

  • Various UI components updated to reflect when users can and cannot select items to learn more.

  • Various colors were muted to gray or subdued colors to avoid confusion with risk items that use red, green, and yellow to convey risk level.

  • Some data fields updated to use a monospace font to enhance readability for technical users to eliminate character ambiguity

  • Grouped various loading indicators to more clearly enable the user to know when data is being loaded

  • Various tooltips and links to knowledge base added

  • Various buttons and styles changed, added, or removed

Data Browsing

Various improvements aimed at helping users find and browse frequently-accessed insights more efficiently.

  • Most items in tables can be selected to copy the cell data to clipboard.

  • Logo images for entities re-deployed with improved performance

  • My BreachRisk page

    • Danger Rating added to the threats summary table

  • Perimeter Details page

    • Added a Search & Filter bar at the top of each table

    • Added a table setting button on each table, to adjust pagination and row height settings

    • Quick-access buttons added to the Threats table to access penetration testing results, Threat Inspector, and Host Inspector from the Threat table. Hover over a row in the Threats table to access.

    • Quick-access buttons added to the Attack Surface table to access Host Inspector and to copy location URL to clipboard.

    • Adjusted various table column headers to reflect other adjustments on this page.

    • Threat Inspector

      • Selecting a row in the Threats table now opens the Threat Inspector.

      • New icon assigned to represent Threat Inspector

      • When the Threat Inspector appears, users can now use the keyboard buttons to quickly browse threats. To activate, open the Threat Inspector, then select a row from the Threats table, then use keyboard arrows up and down will to move to each record in the table without the need to close and re-open the Threat Inspector.

      • User can also quickly navigate between threats using "Previous" and "Next" buttons near the top of the Threat Inspector

      • Some section headings were renamed and reordered for improved clarity.

      • Added more descriptive tooltips for credential, misconfiguration, and vulnerability-based threats

      • Analysis & Testing Status is now displayed in a way that conveys the process whereby Threat status moves from Suspected -> Verified as BreachRisk™ a.i. is able to gain higher confidence. And for active testing mode, that BreachRisk™ a.i. then proceeds from Verified -> Tested -> Breached.

      • Location Details provides a button to quickly access the Host Inspector, copy the location URL, or open the location in a new window without leaving the Threat Inspector.

      • Updated heading for the quantification of a threat to align with the term "Danger Rating"

      • Penetration Testing Activity now opens in a dedicated modal with enhanced usability features.

      • Other various layout adjustments to enhance readability

      • Various tooltips added

    • Host Inspector

      • Selecting a row in the Attack Surface table now opens the Host Inspector.

      • New icon assigned to represent Host Inspector

      • When the Host Inspector appears, users can now use the keyboard buttons to quickly browse hosts. To activate, open the Host Inspector, then select a row from the Attack Surface table, then use keyboard arrows up and down will to move to each record in the table without the need to close and re-open the Host Inspector.

      • User can also quickly navigate between threats using "Previous" and "Next" buttons near the top of the Host Inspector

      • Other various layout adjustments

    • CVEs

      • added details column for quick review of CVE

      • muted colors to distinguish theoretical CVEs from green, red, yellow colors in other areas of the app, which represent viable threats.

      • Option to select a CVE in the table using a button that appears upon hover, which opens the Host Inspector to quickly view the host where the CVE was found.

  • Social page

    • Social Attack Surface table

      • "Risk Level" terminology adjusted to "Attack Success Rate" terminology to better distinguish nature of social testing with "Danger Rating" used in perimeter analysis.

  • Trends page

    • Trend time horizon selector now defaults to displaying the last year of trend data

  • Reports page

    • Enhanced user feedback when downloading

    • Enabled user to cancel report download

  • Scope page

    • Search & filter bar added for each table

    • Removed the Threat Inspector connection to IP Addresses Provided table, pending re-release.

Navigation

  • Added "... More" navigation menu

  • Adjusted navigation background colors and typography in both light and dark modes

  • Added links to the BreachBits Knowledge Base and Release Notes to the ... More navigation menu


Data Features

The insights and datapoints available to users.

No changes.


BreachRisk™ Methodology

The underlying methodology used to find, analyze, and test a company.

No changes were made during the period of this update. However, updates were made in early February. To learn more about these changes, see the dedicated February 2026 Threat Library release notes article.


Bug Fixes and Miscellaneous Improvements

  • Improved: Various minor stability improvements

  • Bug: Removed Advanced and Premium buttons in various locations that would fail to load options for the user to understand service level differences.

  • Bug: In some situations, the Threat Inspector bar would suddenly scroll in an unpredictable way.


Do you have a Feature Request or bug report?

Have an idea for a feature, improvement or bug fix you have encountered with your BreachRisk™ subscription? Send our BreachBits Support Team an email - we'd love to hear about it!

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