The document says Russians make up one-fifth of all data breach victims globally. The number of Russian accounts accessing and leaking sensitive information such as credit cards, phone numbers and various passwords as third parties rose to 11 percent.
While the correlation does not imply causation, everything points to the fact that these figures are due to Moscow’s war against the neighboring country. On February 25, one day after the Kremlin activated the attack, the decentralized ‘hacker’ group Anonymous declared “cyber war” against Russia. This was followed by a wave of cyberattacks launched from computers around the world against Russian state infrastructure and citizens of this country. It’s a strategy that’s been accelerating ever since. And in March, 136% more accounts were breached than in February.
This Wednesday Anonymous claimed to have stolen up to 495,000 confidential emails from Technotec.Serving Russian energy companies such as Rosneft or Gazprom.
Rise of cyberattacks against Poland
On the contrary, the Surfshark report states: private data leak Ukraine decreased 67% in the first months of 2022. Thus, the country under Russian military siege moved from being the eighth most vulnerable country in the world at the end of last year to position number 15.
Poland is particularly notable, taking third place on the list with 961,000 users affected by personal data theft, an increase of 514% over the first quarter of 2021. attacks’phishing‘, masquerading as legitimate third-party actors – such as banks or other companies – to trick the victim into installing viruses on their systems. This stolen data can then be used for blackmail.
Although its impact has been reduced by 47%, the second most affected country is the USA with 2.49 million affected users. Spain, for its part, ranks 16th: data of more than 187,000 Internet users were breached from January to March, the figures represent a 70% decline. Thus, it has been confirmed that the country is not affected by the Russian cyber-attack threat that it has foreseen for now.