How many people fall victim to phishing attacks?

Posted by tracyanne on Dec 10, 2009 4:46 PM EDT
ZDNet; By Ryan Naraine and Dancho Danchev
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According to a recently released report, based on a sample of 3 million users collected over a period of 3 months, approximately 45% of the time, users submitted their login information to the phishing site they visited.

The study, exclusively monitored users who successfully reached a live phishing site that was not blocked by their browser’s built-in anti-phishing protection or filtered as fraudulent one (Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters), and found out that on average, 12.5 out of one million customers sampled for a particular bank, visited the phishing site.

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