Facebook users expose all to strangers

Sophos set up a profile page for Freddi Staur (an anagram of ID Fraudster), featuring a picture of a small green plastic frog and minimal personal information. It then sent out 200 friends requests which received 87 responses. Of these, 41 per cent of the total sample gave access to personal information. In the majority of these cases, details such as email addresses (72 per cent), date of birth (84 per cent), place of work or education (87 per cent), and current address (78 per cent) were made available to a potential fraudster.

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