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That pal on your website chat room may not be who you think they are, a company that helps firms protect their computers from identity thieves warned yesterday.
Crooks prefer targeting firms, educational systems, healthcare and governments hoping for links to customers to rip off, but Dean Turner said social networking sites are the latest open door for hackers seeking your name, bank and serial number.
"Identity theft is a huge global problem," said Turner, global intelligence network director of Symantec Corporation. Since the Internet can be accessed anywhere, "there's real crime taking place in the digital world."
People are using web browsers more, and site owners let clients build their own applications, opening the doors wider and wider, which makes it difficult to identify users or police them.
Hacking was at the root of 74 per cent of the data theft cases found by Symantec.
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