Personal information leaks suffered by one in four
The figure in the headline is a surprisingly high one, coming from this survey reported on by japan.internet.com and conducted by Marsh Inc into measures to prevent leaks of information.
Demographics
Over the 28th and 29th of August 2008 300 people from the Marsh monitor panel with home computers completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.0% of the sample were female, and 20.0% in each age group from the twenties to the over-sixties.
The difference in Q1 between online shopping and online checkout is that many services offer not just online payment, but also offline payment at convenience store kiosks, and even cash on delivery to said convenience stores.
For Q2SQ, my wife had that, filling in a dodgy survey from a site linked from a popular trustworthy site, and she gets about 10 spam per day from them.
Research results
Q1: What kinds of measures do you take to prevent information leaks? (Sample size=300)
Votes Percentage Have security software installed 210 70.0% Don’t do online check-out 16 5.3% Don’t do online shopping 6 2.0% Don’t use services that require an ID and password 5 1.7% Don’t do online user registration 3 1.0% Other 4 1.3% Don’t use anything in particular 76 25.3% Q2: Have you had an incident with personal information being leaked online? (Sample size=300)
Yes (to SQ) 24.7% No 75.3% Q2SQ1: How did your information come to be leaked? (Sample size=74)
Financial, other information leaked from a web site I was registered at 45.9% Someone else holding my personal information had an information leak 13.5% Accessed a phishing site 8.1% Filled in a fake online survey 8.1% Lost information through a virus, other malware 4.1% Someone disclosed my personal details 4.1% Blog 2.7% Other 13.5% I’m not sure why this question is not multiple choice!
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RMilner said,
September 12, 2008 @ 06:20
Hah! Living in the UK, the Government is the biggest source of personal data leaks. You don’t need to go online at all.
How confidential corporate data leaks in Japan » 世論 What Japan Thinks said,
September 16, 2008 @ 22:30
[…] Ahh, I could write pages and pages on this topic, but as I like getting paid every month I’d better keep quiet and just stick to the facts in this survey from Marsh Inc that was reported on by japan.internet.com on the subject of corporate information leaks. For reference, just last week I looked at leaks from the home environment. […]