About 1 in 5 online adults, roughly 21 percent, has been a victim of either social or mobile cybercrime.1
1 in 10 social network users said they’d fallen victim to a scam or fake link on social network platforms. 1
While 75 percent of people believe that cybercriminals are actively looking at exploiting information on social networks, less than half (44 percent) actually use a security solution which protects them from social network threats, and only 49 percent use the privacy settings to control what information they share, and with whom. 1
In the first half of 2013 2:
62 percent of all data breaches resulted in the exposure of real names;
39 percent revealed either a person’s birth date or a government identification number (e.g. Social Security number); and
