India ranks amongst the top five most breached countries in 2023, finds analysis 

India ranked 5th in global data breaches in 2023, with 5.3 million leaked accounts, showing a 56% decrease from 2022.

India ranked 5th in the list of most breached countries with 5.3 million leaked accounts in 2023. Globally, a total of 299.8 million accounts were breached, with the U.S. ranking first and amounting to 32% of all breaches from January through December.

Russia took the second place, while France ranked third, followed by Spain and India. The breach rate in India was 56% lower in 2023 than it was in 2022, while the global trend shows an 18% decrease, an analysis of data breaches conducted by Surfshark said.

India was earlier ranked 7th in the list, in 2022, with 12.3 million accounts breached.

The U.S. jumped to 1st place after trifold yearly growth with almost 100 million breached online accounts in 2023, being previously ranked 3rd with 31M in 2022, after Russia and China.

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Europe’s data breaches decreased from 160M in 2022 to 116.6M in 2023.

North America accounts for 34% of the breaches (101.7M), breaches in the area grew 193% in 2023 compared to the previous year. An additional 9% of the accounts originated from Asia (26.3M). All other regions comprised less than 5% of the years’s total, and almost 14% remain unknown. Out of all regions, Africa saw the greatest year-over-year decrease — 88%, bringing its total of 25M leaked accounts in 2022 down to 3M in 2023.