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pWhile the number of breaches has fallen the UK has been the worsthit country in Northern Europe since 2004pp
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ppAround seven British user accounts were breached every minute during the second quarter of 2025 more than three million in totalppWhile data breaches dropped globally by 58 from the previous quarter the number rose from 70 million to 94 million leaked accounts The US was the mostaffected country with 425 million breached accounts France with 114 million and India with 17 million followed by Germany and Israelpp30 off Keeper Securitys Business Starter and Business plansppKeeper Security is trusted and valued by thousands of businesses and millions of employees Why not join them and protect your most important assets while taking advantage of this special offerppThe countries with the highest number of leaked accounts per 1000 residents were France at 172 Israel at 130 the US at 123 and Singapore at 26ppWhether sharing your name and address for food deliveries or phone numbers when making a booking at a barber shop there is no guarantee that businesses are keeping crucial information safe and secure said Sarunas Sereika product manager at Surfshark which carried out the researchppIn the wrong hands this data can be used to commit identity theft via social media for targeted scams or sold on the dark web where theyre traded for further illegal useppIn the UK the number fell during the second quarter down by 58 compared to the previous quarter But said the researchers the numbers are still staggering The UK ranks seventh globally with 944000 breached accountsppSince 2004 said the firm the UK has been the worsthit country in Northern Europe with 3699 million compromised user accounts A total of 794 million unique emails were breached indicating that the average British person has been affected by data breaches around five timesppSign up today and you will receive a free copy of our Future Focus 2025 report the leading guidance on AI cybersecurity and other IT challenges as per 700 senior executivesppAnd with 2393 million passwords being leaked together with British accounts nearly twothirds of breached users were put in danger of account takeover that could lead to identity theft extortion or other cybercrimesppThe UKs biggest incident involved the leak of 32272135 billion unique British emails in an underground forum by a hacker known as Addka72424ppMeanwhile 5686838 British emails were leaked after a Wattpad database containing 270 million records was offered for free on hacker forums and 2856737 UK accounts were exposed when it was discovered that Gravatar could be abused for mass data collection of its profiles by web crawlers and botsppGlobally there have been an astonishing 23 billion breached accounts since 2004 Around 77 billion of these have unique email addresses meaning that a single email address has been breached around three times For every 100 people 94 unique email addresses and 281 accounts are breachedppEmma Woollacott is a freelance journalist writing for publications including the BBC Private Eye Forbes Raconteur and specialist technology titlespp
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ppAround seven British user accounts were breached every minute during the second quarter of 2025 more than three million in totalppWhile data breaches dropped globally by 58 from the previous quarter the number rose from 70 million to 94 million leaked accounts The US was the mostaffected country with 425 million breached accounts France with 114 million and India with 17 million followed by Germany and Israelpp30 off Keeper Securitys Business Starter and Business plansppKeeper Security is trusted and valued by thousands of businesses and millions of employees Why not join them and protect your most important assets while taking advantage of this special offerppThe countries with the highest number of leaked accounts per 1000 residents were France at 172 Israel at 130 the US at 123 and Singapore at 26ppWhether sharing your name and address for food deliveries or phone numbers when making a booking at a barber shop there is no guarantee that businesses are keeping crucial information safe and secure said Sarunas Sereika product manager at Surfshark which carried out the researchppIn the wrong hands this data can be used to commit identity theft via social media for targeted scams or sold on the dark web where theyre traded for further illegal useppIn the UK the number fell during the second quarter down by 58 compared to the previous quarter But said the researchers the numbers are still staggering The UK ranks seventh globally with 944000 breached accountsppSince 2004 said the firm the UK has been the worsthit country in Northern Europe with 3699 million compromised user accounts A total of 794 million unique emails were breached indicating that the average British person has been affected by data breaches around five timesppSign up today and you will receive a free copy of our Future Focus 2025 report the leading guidance on AI cybersecurity and other IT challenges as per 700 senior executivesppAnd with 2393 million passwords being leaked together with British accounts nearly twothirds of breached users were put in danger of account takeover that could lead to identity theft extortion or other cybercrimesppThe UKs biggest incident involved the leak of 32272135 billion unique British emails in an underground forum by a hacker known as Addka72424ppMeanwhile 5686838 British emails were leaked after a Wattpad database containing 270 million records was offered for free on hacker forums and 2856737 UK accounts were exposed when it was discovered that Gravatar could be abused for mass data collection of its profiles by web crawlers and botsppGlobally there have been an astonishing 23 billion breached accounts since 2004 Around 77 billion of these have unique email addresses meaning that a single email address has been breached around three times For every 100 people 94 unique email addresses and 281 accounts are breachedppEmma Woollacott is a freelance journalist writing for publications including the BBC Private Eye Forbes Raconteur and specialist technology titlespp
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