Dark web, Italy 14th in the world for stolen data

The activities of hackers are continuing with great intensity in 2022. Italy is experiencing a negative boom in data theft activities that take place on the dark web, the portion of the internet accessible with specific programs and where anonymity reigns.

In our country, the experts of Crif, a company that deals with credit information and business information, highlighted over 780,000 reports of thefts in the first half of 2022, equal to an increase of + 44.1% compared to the previous half year.

Numbers that place Italy in 14th place in the world for information stolen from the dark web, as can be seen from the latest edition of Crif's Cyber ​​Observatory.

The regions in which the most people are alerted are Lazio (21.5%), Lombardy (13.4%) and Campania (7.8%).

The province of Rome alone covers 18.8% of total cases, followed by Milan (5.8%), Naples (5.0%) and Turin (4.1%).

Most of the hacked profiles concern e-mail accounts (27.0%) and entertainment sites (21.0%).

"The data of the cyber Observatory make us reflect on the risks related to the circulation of our data online" says Beatrice Rubini, Executive Director of Crif.

"In particular, contact details are becoming increasingly attractive to fraudsters, making fraud and identity theft possible."

Passwords remain among the most at-risk information.

In Italy, among the most common found on the dark web, Crift mentions "andrea", "francesco" and "alessandro", and football team names such as "juventus" and "napoli".

"What to do to protect our personal data? We must pay particular attention to the e-mails and messages we receive every day, training to recognize scam and phishing attempts" conclude the experts.

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