Based on other research, more than half of UK residents claiming that their accounts passwords can be found easily on the Internet and they never change the password, except when prompted.
Experian credit Supply Company, warned that millions of people let themselves be open to the fraudster. They have become too relaxed going to the information they put on social networking sites.
"The Internet is now open to be accessed by anyone, as they are increasingly growing number of users today. So did the number of people who use the Internet to the crime. The Internet user should be aware of the personal information they put on the internet," said Pete Turner of Experian, which is also a ProtectMyID service management company to assist in preventing identity fraud.
Based on a poll concluded, three frequently used passwords like hometown, birth date, and name of school in childhood are in complete list of 10 information that people enter in their online profiles.
Involve 2000 survey of adults find if 18 percent of them will put their hometown of information on the internet, and only 3 percent who give the same information to a stranger on the phone.
Most one of four people, or approximately 24 percent, will put their school name on the Internet. While 1 percent of people will tell you information on their school's name to a stranger on the phone, and 27 percent would tell their birth dates on the internet, with 23 percent going to tell their birth date information to a stranger on the phone.
More than 51 percent of people surveyed said they use the same password for all their accounts on the Internet. Polling also shows that 52 percent of British citizens also never change their passwords.
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