Instant Checkmate

Instant Checkmate is a US company whose business is based on collating public records on the whole population and making them available to customers:

“Whether researching arrest records, phone numbers, addresses, demographic data, census data, or a wide variety of other information, we help thousands of Americans find what they’re looking for each and every day.”

It basically allows customers to run an online background check on a prospective employee, partner or anyone at all.

There doesn’t yet appear to be a UK equivalent.

This is a growing business with 200 million searches already conducted.

So who better to put together an infographic on Cybercrime?

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Cybercrime

Some of the key claims made about cybercrime in the US which, unsurprisingly, appears to be growing rapidly year on year are:

• 378 million victims per year (includes a lot of repeat victimisation)
• 30,000 websites hacked every day
• Mobile devices most at risk