ID THEFT PROTECT - Identity Theft and Identity Fraud
Statistics
19% of respondents said they didn't have anti-virus software on their computer; and 75% of respondents said they didn't have an anti-phishing toolbar.
(State of the Net survey (CRNRC), August 2008)
51% of Irish small businesses were victims of crime at least once in the past year - an 11% increase on the previous year.
(Small Firms Association Survey, August 2008)
Britons have abandoned almost 300 million sets of personal details on the internet, leaving them open to ID fraud.
(Capital One Research, August 2008)
New malicious websites blocked each day has increased by 91 percent, from 2,076 in June, to a daily average of 3,968 in July.
(MessageLabs Intelligence Report, August 2008)
MessageLabs found that spam levels have actually decreased for all except the non-profit sector, in which spam rose by 5.8 percent to account for 82.2 percent of all email.
