Kenya in Africa’s top list of most breached e-accounts

According to Surfshark’s data, South Sudan tops the continental list of countries with the most breached online accounts for the 20 years at 89.4 million followed by South Africa at 34.6 million.

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Online accounts in Kenya are among the most breached in Africa, new data shows, hitting 5.8 million transgressions during the 20 years to March 2023 and accounting for 0.03 percent of the overall global violations.

Data from Netherlands-based virtual private networks firm, Surfshark further shows that breaches in Kenya have increased over six-fold in the past year, jumping from 4,701 in the first quarter of last year to 78,663 during the three months ending March this year.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.