
The increase in Nigeria’s data breaches moved the country from the previous position of 41 to 32, with around 50,000 breaches recorded in Q4 2022.


This is almost 50 per cent less than the nearly 81 million seen in Q4’2022. Globally, data breaches declined in the first quarter of 2023, with a total of 41.6 million accounts breached. This made Nigeria the 32nd most breached country in the world in the first three months of this year, according to the latest data from cybersecurity company, Surfshark, collected through its independent partners from 29,000 publicly available databases and aggregated by email addresses. Skrumble Network is backed by Skrumble Technologies Inc and has attracted over 15 world-class venture capital partners.ĭata breaches in Nigeria increased by 64 per cent, as 82,000 leaked accounts were recorded in the first three months of the year when compared with the last quarter of 2022. The MainNet release is expected to be early 2019. The decentralized version of Ally in Beta is expected to be live September 2018 on the TestNet. Over 70,000 community members have already pre-signed up for the beta launch of Ally. Some key features of Ally (Beta) include disappearing messages with set timers private, public and broadcast chat functionalities video chat with up to 50 members live media streaming in-app wallet and in-chat crypto transfers. “There is a pressing demand for a communication platform that places user privacy, data security, and freedom all first, and we are combatting this issue by building Ally to create an environment where people can feel safe.” “We’re excited to mark this milestone in our project, where the shared vision of uniting the global community is becoming a reality,” says Eric Lifson, Co-Founder of Skrumble Network.

This ensures that no external entities have the power to censor, block or manipulate any data. Unlike Facebook, Telegram and WeChat, the new dApp is powered by the Skrumble Network public chain, and therefore uses community-owned storage with no centralized servers. Skrumble Network (SKM), a communication-centric public blockchain that simplifies the way people contact and contract, last week announced the global Beta release of its first dApp – Ally – on iOS and Android.Ĭurrently centralized in Beta, and soon to be decentralized in September 2018, Ally is the first of its kind, multi-purpose mobile media and communication application that enables users around the world to communicate freely, anonymously, and securely.
