Symantec, a security software company, has recently advised that Internet users should not use their social e-mail addresses from sites such as Facebook and Twitter for online banking or business transactions to stop any financial data being stolen.
Symantec MD Shantanu Ghosh said, “We have observed that on social networking sites, people usually share their detail including personal ones with their friends as well as with those whom they do not know much and here they face the risk [of being attacked].”
A secure email address should be used as hackers can steal financial information from the user if they click on an untrusted link while on their social network.
