The Philippines positioned fifth in essentially the most variety of information breaches in Asia since 2004, primarily based on the Global Data Breach statistics by cybersecurity agency Surfshark launched on Friday.
Globally, the Philippines ranked seventeenth.
According to Surfshark, a complete of 124 million accounts have been breached within the Philippines, which is the second highest rely in Southeast Asia following Indonesia with 144 million.
“In Asia, 52 accounts are breached per 100 people on average. However, in the Philippines, this number goes up to 106 per 100 people,” Surfshark’s lead researcher Agneska Sablovskaja mentioned.
“Statistically talking, a median Filipino has been affected by information breaches round as soon as,” Sablovskaja added.
An common consumer e-mail within the Philippines has been breached virtually 3 times contemplating that out of the 124 million compromised web accounts, 50 million have distinctive e-mail addresses, Surfshark mentioned.
“The Philippines has had a total of 420 million data points have been exposed since 2004. On average, each email address is leaked with three additional data points,” it added.
According to the cybersecurity supplier, 70 million passwords have been leaked along with Filipino accounts.
Due to this, the accounts of greater than half of the breached customers could also be stolen which may result in id theft, extortion, or different cybercrimes, Surfshark mentioned.
Globally, a complete of 17 billion accounts have been breached since 2004 and roughly a 3rd of them have distinctive e-mail addresses, based on the cybersecurity firm.
Surfshark gives digital personal community (VPN) service centered on creating humanized privateness and safety options.
GMA News Online has requested the Philippine National Police-Anti-Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) for his or her feedback, however they’ve but to reply as of posting time. —Joviland Rita/KBK, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
