Report finds 1.8 million Bangladesh-linked user records exposed on dark web

More than 1.8 million user records and at least 17,362 sets of login credentials linked to Bangladesh have been found on the dark web, according to a CyberStation report described by The Daily Star.

CyberStation, the cybersecurity division of Brain Station 23, assessed 767 domains across 15 sectors. Its findings were presented Thursday at a cybersecurity briefing in Dhaka, according to a company press release cited by the newspaper.

Government services accounted for the largest share of exposed citizen records. Technology and telecommunications had the highest rates of data exposure, the company said. It described its figures as conservative estimates, with the actual scale potentially higher.

Participants urged coordinated action to prevent misuse of personal information. The reported total counts user records, rather than establishing how many distinct individuals were affected.