Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan.31 / Trend S.Isayev, T. Jafarov/
About 36 websites in Iran are hacked daily, Iran's cyber police website quotes cyber police chief Kamal Hadyanfar as saying at a press conference.
Hadyanfar further brought up more statistics, saying that about 89 percent of the hackers in Iran are men, while 11 percent are women.
He also said 64 percent of cyber criminals are aged 17-25, 32 percent aged 25 and over, and only four percent - aged under 17.
With regard to underage hackers, Hadyanfar added that a 14-year old hacker has been revealed and arrested in Iran.
Hadyanfar underlined the vulnerability of Iran's official websites.
"Some 73 percent of government websites in Iran are vulnerable to hacker attacks," he said. "With regard to the banking sector, 60 percent of state banks and 40 percent of private banks have security holes and are also vulnerable to cyber attacks".
"A total of 3,400 Iranian websites have been hacked in the first quarter of this year (Iranian year ends on March 21), while 3,500 website have been hacked in the second quarter, and 5,840 websites in the third quarter," Hadyanfar added.