Research on account compromise across Asia recorded India accounting for 49% of compromised accounts, Vietnam approximately 12%, and Indonesia, China and Japan around 5% each.
Account Compromise Is Not The Same Measure As Breach
A compromised account is a credential in circulation — from infostealer malware, credential stuffing, or a prior breach elsewhere. It is the input to the incidents this database records rather than the incidents themselves.
The corpus filed the aggregate credential stores at 25-0620 and 26-0615: enormous compilations assembled from many sources, most of them old, some of them fabricated. This distribution describes the population those stores are drawn from.
Forty-Nine Per Cent Is A Scale Artefact And Also Is Not
India has the largest internet user base in the region, so leading is unsurprising. But 49% against a second place of 12% is a wider gap than population alone accounts for.
Plausible contributors include device population — a very large base of low-cost Android devices, some running unsupported software — and the rapid enrolment of first-time internet users into digital financial services, a population with no prior exposure to credential hygiene.
This desk is describing candidate explanations rather than establishing one; the research we reviewed does not decompose the figure.
And It Connects To The Fraud Files
The victim-side files at 25-1104 and 25-1122 concern US consumers because that is where the fraud statistics are published. The exposure recorded here has no equivalent published outcome data.
Half the compromised accounts in Asia belong to people about whom this corpus can say nothing further — no fraud loss figures, no reporting mechanism, no compensation record. Graded medium: single-methodology vendor research, not normalised for user base.
Built on published regional research, listed below. Figures are shares of recorded compromised accounts and are not normalised for internet user population. Corrections: corrections@forensicpost.com.