India 7th most cyber-breached country in the world, Russia tops the charts: Surfshark

In 2022, 4.7 million email accounts got breached in India, according to a report by Swedish VPN services company Surfshark. But, this is a drastic improvement for India over the previous years, with the country going from third position to the seventh position in the list of most cyber-breached countries in the world. While India improved its position on the list, Russia suffered the brunt of the breaches last year.

Surfshark created the report in partnership with independent cybersecurity experts and used user data collected from over 27,000 breached databases that appeared online. The researchers sorted data based on specific data points like user countries. The users’ locations were ascertained using their email or website domain name, country, city, coordinates, IP address, and other data.