The U.S. Still The Most Breached Country in Q3

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Earlier this year, I had reported that the United States (U.S.) was the most breached country. Once again the U.S. has suffered the most data breaches of any country.

The U.S. Becomes The 1st Country With The Most Data Breaches

According to a new study by Surfshark, the U.S. had the most leaked accounts in the third quarter for 2023. In addition, it suffered exactly 8.1 million accounts leaked, which is a total of 26%.

Study compiled by Surfshark.

Here are the next four countries ranked by the amount of accounts breached:

• Russia 7.1 million
• France 1.6 million
• China 1.5 million
• Mexico 1.2 million

Around the world 31.5 million accounts were compromised in this third quarter. In other words, 4 accounts are breached every second.

“The third quarter of 2023 shows a general decrease in data breach count. Yet every minute, over 240 online accounts were…