18 out of every 100 Indians victim of data breaches: SurfShark

India has become a hub for cyber-attacks, ranking as the sixth most breached country since the first recorded digital attacks in 2004, revealed a new report by cybersecurity company Surfshark. To put in perspective, 18 out of every 100 Indians had their personal contact details breached. “In a country which has lost over 962.7 million peoples’ contact details to data breaches over the past 18 years and lacks strong data protection laws, this poses serious cybersecurity concerns,” the company said in its report.

This report comes after Surfshark became the second major virtual private network (VPN) provider to shut down its servers in India in response to the country’s new cybersecurity directive which requires VPNs to store user data for a period of five years.