Symantec, the company that makes Norton Antivirus and Symantec Security Suite software, identified Sweden as a haven for identity theft, second only to the United States.
The company’s study into identity theft showed that 15 percent of the world’s criminal servers are located in Sweden. 51 percent of the world’s underground economy servers are in the USA.
“Underground economy servers are used by criminals and criminal organizations to sell stolen information, typically for subsequent use in identity theft. This data can include government-issued identity numbers, credit cards, bank cards and personal identification numbers (PINs), user accounts, and email address lists,” according to Symantec.
A spokesman for Symantec said that "Carelessness constitutes by far the most common way for details to fall into the wrong hands.”
Many people victimized by identity theft end up filing bankruptcy in order to wipe the slate clean.
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