How the personal data is protected?
The US Federal Trade Commission estimates that 27 million Americans were victims of some kind of ID theft in the past five years. Other studies suggest 1 in 20 U.S. citizens had been hit by this kind of electronic fraud. Last year, an industry group suggested that about 100 million credit card numbers had been stolen in one way or another. Together with the news from 13 recent high-profile data theft incidents shows 5.2 million consumers were exposed to identity theft through data leaks. [1]
On September 8, 2006, Linden Lab released a news bulletin that revealed their Second Life database had been compromised and customer information, including encrypted passwords and users' real names, had likely been accessed. However it was later revealed that the hacker had in fact been focused on trying to cheat the in-world money system and their access to personal information was believed incidental. Linden Lab then released code changes to mitigate the attacks and started to look at technical options that would allow only “trusted” resident to fully utilize LSL across the grid.