Nigeria Hit by 24.1m Data Breaches – Surfshark

Nigeriacommunicationsweek | 08-05-2026 12:20pm |

Surfshark, a Netherlands-based cybersecurity firm, has reported that Nigeria recorded about 24.1 million compromised user accounts since 2004, making it the third most affected country in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report, which analysed global data breach trends for the first quarter of 2026, showed that Nigeria recorded 281,500 leaked accounts between January and March 2026, ranking the

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