MOSCOW, July 31In 2023, Russia was second in the world after the United States in terms of the number of hacked accounts — the number of leaked Russian accounts exceeded 78 million, according to the Roscongress study «Digital Sovereignty: How States Protect Interests Online», which was reviewed by .
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«In 2023, the number of leaked Russian accounts exceeded 78 million, which was the second figure after the United States,» the report says.
«The majority of data leaks in Russia involve the loss of personal information, such as names, emails, residential addresses, tax identification numbers, passport details, and so on,» the report says. They accounted for 73.6% of all leaks. Other types of data leaks include commercial and state secrets (9.2% and 6.6%, respectively), and payment information (0.9%).
At the same time, when converted to population, the number of hacked accounts in Russia turned out to be higher than in other countries — in 2023, 542 Russian accounts per thousand people were compromised. In the United States, the number of accounts that were accessed without the owner's permission reached 285 per thousand people last year.
Next in this anti-rating is the Czech Republic with 207 hacked accounts per thousand people in 2023, then Taiwan — 169, France — 162 and Australia with 134 compromised accounts per thousand people.
The authors of the report note that cyber threats affect both ordinary citizens and transnational corporations and national governments. «In the consumer context, IT security may be limited to the use of passwords to control access to computer equipment and antivirus software to protect consumer devices,» the document says.
At the same time, many users are very careless about protecting their data, using the simplest passwords. The authors of the report note that the most popular password for data protection in the world in 2023 was a sequence of numbers in order from 1 to 6, and in second place was the word admin. In third and fourth place in popularity are also sequences of numbers from 1 to 8 and from 1 to 9.