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Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15

Posted by kdawson on from the less-than-your-fillings dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "One of the more interesting tidbits in Symantec's Global Internet Threat Report (PDF, 105 pages) is the price sheet, which suggests that someone's 'full identity' is worth in the range of $1-$15. Your email password goes for $4-$30 and your bank account might fetch $10-$1000. With those prices, I wonder how often they pay more for the bank account than is actually in it? There's also an executive summary (PDF, 36 pages)."

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  1. honeypot identities by FudRucker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    what should be done is for banks to work together with law enforcement and create a bunch of fake identities with flags on them that when used it automatically notifies the police and sends all information to the police (photos, fingerprints & whatever else)...

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  2. IE vs. Firefox statistics by MongooseCN · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Check out page 3 of the executive summary. In Jan-Jun of 07, they found that 89% of web vulnerabilities were in ActiveX plugins in IE. 1% of vulnerabilities were in Mozilla extensions.

    I think we have a clear winner here...

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  3. I smell profit ! by Ihlosi · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1. Open bank account.


    2. Sell account information.


    3. Close bank account.


    Repeat.

  4. Re:You're kidding, right? by MMC+Monster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I meant to have the poll as:

    How much money do you have in your (checking+savings) bank accounts?
    1. Less than 1 paychecks
    2. 1-2 paychecks
    3. 3-5 paychecks
    4. 6-12 paychecks
    5. more than 12 paychecks
    6. I'm an edge case, you insensitive clod.

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