According to the reports, about 97 % of the installations occurred within the US though, over 16 million of
the total users affected are thought to be from other countries.
Not exact matches
Now a newer estimate claims that the
total number of
affected users may be as high as 87 million.
While the list had some issues when readers weren't always on top of what month a book was published (and therefore
affected the year of publication), over five hundred readers nominated a
total of 473 unique titles to the list, of which
users were then asked to vote.
If tablet
users buy fewer e-books than e-reader
users, does it really
affect the
total number of e-books sold?
-- instead it just pulls out a few figures disclosed by Privacy Shield - certified companies that already publish transparency reports, claiming they are «illustrative» of the fact that «as a percentage of
total user accounts» the number of accounts
affected by requests for government access to personal data «remains limited».
The
total figure also includes more than one million
users from the UK with the majority of those potentially
affected based in the United States.
The exploited flaw has left dozens of cryptocurrency
users with denied access to their Wallets, with a
total of $ 280 million worth of Ether
affected.
The company, however, did not provide an exact figure on the
total losses incurred as well as the number of
users who were
affected.