Global data breach statistics
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Data Breach Map
What you need to know about the numbers
This data is updated periodically, so make sure to check the numbers once in a while if you quote them. That said, there are two important things you should know about these numbers:
- Most people use the same email for different accounts when registering online. That’s why a single email or account can be breached several times in separate cases, and some numbers may seem so high (like 17.2B total breached accounts);
- 28.1% of the total breached accounts did not contain information about a person’s country of residence. So the numbers of country-specific breaches are actually much higher than you see below.
Accounts get breached more than once
Since 2004, a total of 17.2B accounts have been breached, and approximately 6.5B of them have unique email addresses. That means that on a global scale:
Has Surfshark had a data breach? No, Surfshark has never had a data breach and none of the accounts have been breached. The company takes many security measures to mitigate the risk and operates on RAM-only servers, ensuring the privacy of users' data.