Email accounts in Kenya are now among the most breached in the world, new data shows, with the number of transgressions recorded jumping by over 40-fold in 2024 to hit 1.9 million up from 40,527 the previous year.
The data from Netherlands-based virtual private networks firm Surfshark indicates that the number of breaches on email accounts in 2024 was the highest in at least five years, increasing at the fastest pace during the final quarter of the year where a total of 904,817 attacks were recorded.
