"INCREASED NUMBER OF ON-LINE
ACCOUNTS HACKED!"
It has been reported that the average Briton has 26 on-line accounts. Yet user's only have five passwords in total to keep them secure, one for every five accounts roughly, according to research.One in four of 2000 people surveyed use a single password for the majority of all accounts, while one in 20 use one password for all accounts.
These findings are totally baffling, once one account has been hacked successfully then the hacker can at ease access the remainder of the users on-line accounts.
It's recommended that users have different passwords for all accounts, within this, mixing the passwords up with numbers,capitals and character's egJ0hnsm1th32@yahoo. It also recommends that you change these passwords around every 12 weeks. It's a inconvenience but a necessary one to keep your on-line accounts safe.
Apparently the spiralling number of on-line accounts driving a sharp rise in on-line fraud. Fraudsters in the UK alone traded more than 12 million pieces of personal information on-line in the first four months of 2012, a threefold increase since 2010.
Something to ponder on when you next use your credit card on-line or to check your bank account !
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