€150m in web festive spree

ALMOST three-quarters of adults turned to the internet for Christmas shopping last year, splashing out €150 million during the festive season.

Research carried out for the Makeitsecure computer security campaign also found one-in-four adults had been targeted by online crooks.

Of Ireland’s 3.4m people aged 15 or over, about 850,000 had encountered problems like rogue emails asking for their bank accounts.