Data breaches in Iran have declined by 70% in Q4 2022 and Q1 2023 compared with the corresponding periods of last year.
Iran ranked 12th in the world in terms of the number of data breaches, as a total of 160.16 million were recorded during the period, which is 8,799 lower year-on-year.
According to the Surfshark website, the top leaked data point in Iran was password hash during the six-month period.
The US topped the list in terms of data breaches with 2.61 billion during the period, down 25% year-on-year.
Russia came next with 2.27 billion data breaches, registering a 27% increase YOY. It was followed by China with 1.02 billion breaches (down 97%) and France with 508.19 million (up 275%).
Total data breaches declined by 67.7% in 2022 with 310.9 million compared with 2021 with 959.3 million, ICTNA reported.
Forty out of every 1,000 accounts were breached in 2021, while 123 were breached from every 1,000 accounts in 2022.
Russia topped the list, as 718 accounts were breached from every 1,000 accounts in 2022.
China was ranked second in terms of breaches and its total breaches increased by 45.2%. It was followed by the US, which ranked first in 2021. The total breaches of this country declined ninefold in 2022 year-on-year.
Just as some countries experienced a significant increase in breaches of user accounts and leakage of personal data, other countries have also experienced improvements in this field.
Iran’s total data breaches stood at 316 million in 2022, placing the country at 43rd spot in the world while it had ranked second in 2021.
Surfshark’s report indicates that the number of data breaches in Iran declined by 485% in 2022.
India registered the highest decline in data breaches, as it fell by 17 times from 87.6 million to 4.7 million in 2022.
Also, Brazil’s data breaches decreased fourfold from 33 million in 2021 to 8.7 million in 2022.
Iran’s Fixed, Mobile Internet Speeds Deteriorate in February
The speeds of mobile and fixed wireless internet have declined in February 2023 compared to the previous month, according to the Speedtest web service’s latest survey of global internet speed.
Data released by Speedtest.net show Iran’s internet speed (according to the median index) settled one place lower for fixed wireless internet while that of mobile declined by five spots compared to the previous month.
The website used two median and mean (average) indicators to measure the ranking and quality of internet worldwide. The mean index is the average, but the median is the middle point of statistical data. It claims that global rankings are reported based on median download speed “to best reflect the speeds a user is likely to experience in a market.”
Iran’s fixed internet speed ranked 147th (out of 180 countries) while mobile internet speed was at 61st place (out of 137 countries) in February.
Median fixed internet download speed is currently 11.27 Mbps, upload speed is 1.97 Mbps and latency is 30 milliseconds. This is while the median mobile internet download speed is 35.03 Mbps, upload speed is 10.5 and latency is 29 milliseconds.
According to Speedtest, the median global mobile internet download speed is 39.77 Mbps, upload speed is 10.18 Mbps and latency is 28 milliseconds. On fixed internet, the download speed is 78.62 Mbps, upload speed is 34.39 Mbps and latency is 9 milliseconds.
The UAE’s median mobile internet download speed stood at 179.61 Mbps in February to rank first in the world. It was followed by Qatar with 160.33 Mbps, South Korea with 138.46 Mbps, Norway with 131.23 Mbps, Denmark with 123.66 Mbps, Kuwait with 119.79 Mbps, China with 116.7 Mbps, the Netherlands with 114.28 Mbps, Saudi Arabia with 101.88 Mbps and Bahrain with 97.6 Mbps.
For median fixed internet speed, Singapore ranked first with 237.15 Mbps.
China with 226.77 Mbps, Monaco with 226.03 Mbps, Chile with 224.44 Mbps, the UAE with 219.47 Mbps, Thailand with 203.28 Mbps, Denmark with 200.62 Mbps, Hong Kong with 198.53 Mbps, the US with 198.53 Mbps and Spain with 180.3 Mbps came next.
The Iranian government has launched a fiber optic project to improve the quality of fixed internet and eliminate the backlog of internet registration by expanding facilities for users and operators.
