A modern research by cybersecurity firm Surfshark has ranked Nigeria because the sixteenth most breached nation in Q3 2025, with 408,900 leaked accounts.
It was revealed yesterday that in 2025, the nation had witnessed 566,300 breached accounts.
Senior Product Supervisor at Surfshark, Sarunas Sereika, mentioned, “The rise of AI instruments signifies that even minor information breaches can now be leveraged at scale. Beforehand, exploiting leaked information required vital technical talent, however AI has lowered the barrier to entry, permitting malicious actors to quickly analyse and weaponise even seemingly insignificant information, reworking leaked names, addresses, and preferences into extremely personalised assaults.”
General, completely different quarters of 2025, the variety of international breaches is declining. In 2025 Q2, 899 accounts had been breached each minute. In 2025 Q3, nonetheless, breach charges are 22.3 per cent decrease, with 699 accounts being leaked each 60 seconds. The pattern in Nigeria is the other. The breach price is 10 occasions greater in Q3 2025 than it was in Q2 2025, rising from 0.3 to three.2 breached accounts per minute.
Surfshark’s evaluation of knowledge breaches since 2004 confirmed that Nigeria ranked third in Sub-Saharan Africa, with 23.7 million compromised person accounts. A complete of seven.6 million distinctive emails had been breached from Nigeria. 13.1 million passwords had been leaked along with Nigerian accounts, placing 55 per cent of breached customers at risk of account takeover that may result in id theft, extortion, or different cybercrimes. Statistically, 10 out of 100 Nigerian individuals have been affected by information breaches.
Europe was probably the most affected area by breaches in Q3 2025, adopted by North America and Asia
In accordance with the report, one in 2.3 accounts breached in Q3 2025 originated from Europe, with 40 per cent of those being French. North America accounts for 17 per cent of the breaches (15.7 million). A further 15.6 per cent of the accounts originated from Asia (14.1 million). All different areas accounted for round 5 per cent of the yr’s whole, and practically 19 per cent remained unknown.
In descending order, the ten most breached nations in Q3 2025 had been France (15.5 million), Germany (10.5 million), the U.S. (10.5 million), India (10.2 million), Canada (4.8 million), Montenegro (3.1 million), Russia (2.9 million), the UK (2.5 million), the Netherlands (1.2 million), and Indonesia (943,700).
