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Average Brit hit by five data breaches since 2004

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Dissent

For some perspective on the numbers affected by breaches over time,  Emma Woollacott reports:

Around seven British user accounts were breached every minute during the second quarter of 2025 – more than three million in total.

While 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 most-affected country, with 42.5 million breached accounts, France, with 11.4 million, and India, with 1.7 million, followed by Germany and Israel.

The countries with the highest number of leaked accounts per 1,000 residents were France, at 172; Israel, at 130; the US, at 123; and Singapore, at 26.

Read more at ITPro. It’s unfortunate that the author doesn’t cite her sources for the numbers used in her reporting so that methodologies can be considered.

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