According to the report on the incidents affecting the security and integrity of electronic communications networks and services, the total number of affected connections was 27% lower than the number reported for 2014, falling to 6,410,657 from 8,836,821.
ANCOM said mobile telephony connections were the most affected by incidents in 2015, with 2.7 million connections affected, followed by mobile internet services with 2.5 million connections affected, fixed telephony with approximately 660,000 connections affected and fixed internet with some 350,000 connections affected per service.
Data provided by suppliers to ANCOM show that in 2015, a security incident affected on average 22,773 connections. The average duration of an incident lasted about four hours, while the total duration of incidents reported in 2015 lasted 1,050 hours.
Most security incidents occurred in capital city Bucharest, followed by the counties of Gorj, Teleorman and Dambovita.