According to a recent survey conducted by the National Cyber security Alliance (NCSA) reveal that more and more Americans are performing online banking, stock trading and health management, but nearly 60% of Americans say that risks of cyber theft have transformed their online behaviours

More than 40 percent of Americans said that they only visit Web sites that they feel protected with and 20 percent say that they have stopped or reduced their online purchases. The change in behaviours is obvious and not so surprising when we can compare that, of those surveyed, 22 percent said that their information misused to compromise a bank account, steal a credit card number or take out an unauthorized loan.

The violation of belief that an online security breach is huge, as more than 73 percent of the people said they use the Internet banking, trade stocks or review personal medical information. When they were asked the question if having their bank account robbed of $5000 was worse than having their home broken into  and robbed of $5000, 51$ of them said online fraud was worse, 37% said the home break in was worse and 12% were not sure.

The survey also says that;

* 53 percent of Americans use the same online password for various accounts.

* 68 percent of them store most of their photos in respective sites.