Xiang Yang provides some interesting statistics. Translated by e Xin, People’s Daily Online reports:
… By the end of 2011, a total of 26 website were suspected to have users’ information leaked, involving 278 million accounts and passwords, according to the statistics from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC).
During the same period, hackers attacked and modified a total of 136,447 website, 83 percent being enterprise websites and private websites, according to the 360 Security Center.
In addition, the report shows that information leakage from websites mainly affects network users including microbloggers.
I wish we had greater clarity on whether the “leaks” were due to hacks/dumps or insiders leaking the info. The rash of reported leaks from last year is still somewhat confusing and I’ve not seen any definitive answers as to whether some named sites were actually hacked or not.