{"id":1023,"date":"2008-11-05T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2008-11-05T13:20:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T21:20:17","slug":"where-your-identity-is-more-likely-to-be-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"Where is your identity more likely to be stolen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/daily\/chartgallery\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12536546&amp;source=features_box4\" class=\"broken_link\">Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"PADDING-LEFT: 30px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/10\/theft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"PADDING-LEFT: 30px\">Internet users in Britain are more likely to fall victim to identity theft than their peers elsewhere in Europe and North America. In a recent survey of 6,000 online shoppers in six countries by PayPal and Ipsos Research, 14% of respondents in Britain said that they have had their identities stolen online, compared with only 3% in Germany. More than half of respondents said that they used personal dates and names as passwords, making it relatively easy for scammers to gain access to accounts. The French are particularly cavalier, with two-thirds using easily guessed passwords and over 80% divulging personal data, such as birthdays, on social-networking sites.<\/p>\n<p>Of course,<a href=\"\/?p=1013\"> my identity was stolen<\/a> (and apparently sold)\u00a0NOT because of\u00a0inadequate password hygiene, but just because\u00a0I was dealing with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/www.countrywide.com\">Countrywide <\/a>&#8211; a company whose computer systems\u00a0were\u00a0sufficiently misdesigned to be vulnerable to a large-scale insider attack.\u00a0 So there are a lot of things to fix before we get to a world of trustworthy computing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Economist, the &#8220;French are particularly cavalier, with two-thirds using easily guessed passwords.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,62,13,11,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}