Cybersecurity report ranks Malaysia as eighth most breached country in Q3 2023

The study released in November, looks at global data breaches between July and September in over 200 countries and territories. The company said it is based on data collected by independent partners from 29,000 publicly available databases and aggregated email addresses. — Image by Freepik

Cybersecurity company Surfshark has ranked Malaysia as the eighth most breached country in Q3 2023 with 494,699 leaked accounts.

“The breach rate is 144% higher in Q3 2023 than it was in Q2 2023. Around four Malaysian user accounts were leaked every minute in Q3 2023,” the company said in a statement.