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Britain's Teens Admit to Committing Cyber Crimes for Money
According to a report in the Telegraph, a third of those polled said they would consider hacking or spying on the Internet if they could earn money by doing so.
The survey, which polled 1,000 children and parents across the Britain, was undertaken by Internet security firm Trend Micro.
Researchers found that a large proportion of todays youngsters are devoid of "e-morals" and have no scruples about hacking into other peoples emails, bank accounts or personal networking profiles.
More than 10 per cent of youths aged from 12 to 18 said they thought it was "cool" or even "funny" to pose as someone else online, while one in seven children aged 12 to 13 admitted they already had. third of those polled said they would consider hacking or spying on the Internet if they could earn money by doing so.
Forty per cent of youngsters admitted they had logged on to another persons social networking profile.
The same proportion of young people had accessed someone elses online banking or email accounts.
Boys were found to be twice as likely as girls to log into someones social networking site.
Girls were up to three times more likely than boys to access someones online shopping or bank accounts without the owner knowing.
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