Spain is the most infected country, with 35 percent of all its PCs infected with malware. The USA was second as 17 percent of the PCs in the country have malware installed on them, while Mexico was in third place with five percent of its PCs infected.
ID THEFT PROTECT - Identity Theft and Identity Fraud
Statistics
Certain US banks would use a customer’s social security number as a user ID for online banking.
(Carnegie Mellon University study, July 2008)
Instances of identity theft in the UK have risen 154 per cent since June 2007 and upwards of 1,000 serious cases have been reported.
(CPP survey, July 2008)
Bank account takeover is by far the most pervasive form as it constitutes about 60 per cent of all cases in the UK.
(CPP survey, July 2008)
Common forms of UK identity theft include fraudulent mobile phone contracts, credit cards and unsecured loans, which were, respectively, involved in 13, 14 and 14 per cent of all instances last month (June 2008).
(CPP survey, July 2008)
Total number of different malware threats in existence - over 11 million.
