US Is the Data Theft Capital of the World

A new report by Uswitch has revealed which countries have been the worst hit by data breaches and the US ranks first with nearly 19 million data records stolen.  That’s more than 4X the next closest country (South Korea).

Canada, the UK, and Australia rounded out the top five.

China and India aren’t listed anywhere in the top 20.  Tight government control and security law may play a role in China. India’s a different story.  There have been more than 394 million cases of data breaches in India since 2013, according to the study, but when you break it down per capita, India ranks 22nd.

Biggest Data Breaches of the Decade

The Yahoo! data breaches in 2013-2014 still remains the largest when more than 3 billion records wee compromised. Interestingly, the breach at Equifax in 2017 that cost the company $1.4 billion didn’t even make the top 10 despite exposing the records of some 147 million users.

No.CompanyDateUser Records Breached
1Yahoo!2013 & 20143,000,000,000
2Sina Weibo2020538,000,000
3Marriott International2014-2018500,000,000
4Adult Friend Finder2016412,200,000
5MySpace2013359,420,000
6NetEase2015235,000,000
7Zynga2019218,000,000
8LinkedIn2012 & 2016165,000,000
9Dubsmash2018162,000,000
10Adobe2013153,000,000
SOURCE: USWITCH

You can see the full study here.