German consumers are the most careful with passwords, with only about one in four (28 per cent) claiming to have never shared an account password with a friend or family member. By comparison, 60 per cent of Americans and a similar 56 per cent of French punters have.
(PayPal survey, October 2008)
About 80 percent of the breaches in the US involved digital records, while the remainder stemmed from the loss, theft or exposure of paper-based records.
