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The U.S. Becomes The 1st Country With The Most Data Breaches
The year before, Russia was the country with the most accounts breached. Security and data privacy is becoming a difficult task safeguard. According to a detailed study by Surfshark, the United States (U.S.) had 49.8 million leaked accounts. That is 9 times more compared to the previous quarters.
As you can see in the graphic above the U.S. was followed by Russia, Spain and France. The total number of accounts breached globally was 110.8 million accounts in the second quarter. In other words, as we speak there are 14 accounts being breached every second.
Here are the ranks by country of accounts breached:
- United States ranks 1st, with 49.8M leaked accounts
- Russia (15.3M)
- Spain (3.7M)
- France (3.4M)
- Turkey (2.8M)
Overall, the frequency of accounts getting their data stolen or take in the U.S. represented a 156% increase in breached users worldwide.
