ID THEFT PROTECT - Identity Theft and Identity Fraud
Statistics
18- to 29-year-olds made up 28 percent of Internet ID theft victims in 2007. Thirty- to 39-year-olds represented 23 percent of ID theft victims, and 40- to 49-year-olds about 10 percent.
(FTC Report, September 2008)
One in six of all broadband customers surveyed left their Wireless router unprotected and one in nine - that's more than 3.5 million customers said that they did piggyback on someone's else Wireless connection.
(moneysupermarket.com, September 2008)
1.1 million Australians had personally experienced identity theft, and three million had friends or acquaintances who had experienced it.
(Veda Advantage survey, September 2008)
70 per cent of the Australian population is not doing anything to reduce their vulnerability to identity crime.
(Veda Advantage survey, September 2008)
42% of Internet users do not know what social networking is.
