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Anyone Can See Your Stolen Information

Computer piracy is nothing of a new these days. Without the right security precautions your private data such as passwords, bank log-in and such, can easily be stolen. But even worse is the fact that now it can be posted on unprotected web sites and everyone who happens to visit can see all your sensitive details.

Security researchers had found an FTP server, based in Washington, D.C., that was packed with almost a gigabyte of data stolen through the month of April. In one of the files on this server contained stolen passwords for some of U.S. banks and some Yahoo, Hotmail, and other e-mail account user names and passwords, and other private info. Moreover, the data was from different countries in the world and on many different languages. Security specialists find so many cases like this these days, that it cannot contact all the individual victims. They simply report the FBI about what they find.

In order to protect yourself and your sensitive information from such stealth, there are a couple of things you can do. You should use a firewall that blocks unknown programs from communicating with the Net, so that the web thieves cannot phone your home. In addition, you should change passwords often and not to use the same password on different web sites.