Australians afraid of identity fraud

Australians are concerned about their national security, especially about terrorism related events. However, they found such acts as personal information misuse and credit card theft even more terrorizing than terrorism itself.

1202 Australians has been surveyed recently on purpose to find out what are they afraid of most: unauthorized access to their personal information; national security in relation to war and terrorism; viruses and unsolicited emails; shopping and banking online.

The results have shown that sixty-six percent of all questioned people are extremely afraid of unauthorized access to their personal information. The interesting fact is that women are more concerned about sensitive data safety than men. Sixty percent men are very or excessively afraid of identity fraud in comparison to seventy-one percent women. The most sensitive data for both genders is credit or debit card fraud.

While talking about national security in relation to war and terrorism only fifty-eight surveyed people were very or extremely concerned.

When asked about viruses and unsolicited emails forty-three percent of surveyed Australians were extremely afraid of it, while forty-four were afraid of shopping and banking online.

According to securecomputing.net.au there has been an obvious increase since the end of last year, reflecting the public prominence of key security issues including health concerns, increasing interest rates and public incidents of Identity Theft and Financial Fraud.   

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