Sector research records the Americas as experiencing the highest number of telecom incidents, with the United States accounting for 47 attacks.
This Desk Has Already Argued Why That Is Not A Ranking
At 25-0502 the corpus set out four filters deciding which incidents anywhere become public record: a disclosure obligation, collective redress, a security research industry, and publication in English.
The United States passes all four more comprehensively than any other country. A dataset assembled from leak sites and public reporting will find American incidents most reliably, and the number reflects visibility as much as incidence.
Applying The Corpus’s Own Standard To Itself
This file exists mainly to demonstrate that the caution at 25-1206 and 25-1214 is not something this desk applies only to other people’s regions.
When the number favours the jurisdiction the corpus covers best, the same discount applies. 47 US telecom incidents against lower counts elsewhere is a statement about where researchers were looking.
What Would Make The Comparison Meaningful
Incidents per operator, or per subscriber, in countries with comparable disclosure regimes. None of the sector research this desk has reviewed publishes that.
The two French carrier incidents at 25-0804 and 25-0909 illustrate the point: two incidents in a four-operator market is a far higher rate than 47 across the fragmented US carrier and reseller population, and no ranking by absolute count would show it.
Built on published vendor research, listed below. Counts are of recorded incidents and are not normalised for operator population, subscriber base or disclosure regime. Corrections: corrections@forensicpost.com.
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