No matter what you do, your security is at risk when you use the internet

Our passwords and credit card numbers are now easily available to cybercriminals, writes Caroline O’Doherty

YOU won’t hear it reported on the business bulletin during the lunchtime news but there has been a serious downturn in the stolen data market.

“The price of personally identifiable information has dropped massively in the last couple of months,” says market watcher Gavin D’Alton.