A recent study conducted by Google reveals that each week more than 250.000 user accounts are easily stolen through phishing and similar practices.

The security of the accounts that we use daily is not an issue that we should take lightly and it is that access to a person outside our account with poor security can bring us many problems. One of the most common techniques is phishing, which basically is that an unscrupulous user creates an email as if it were our bank, electricity company, telephone company or any other and asks us for personal information and passwords, something these companies never do. . This allows more than 250.000 accounts to be stolen each week around the world, at least that is what a Google study says.

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This study has been developed in collaboration with the University of California and has collected data ranging from March 2016 to March 2017, which is a full year of data. It seeks to see what are the patterns and techniques used and the most common are Phishing and Keylogging, which are the most used by hackers, in addition, that these tools are very simple to use and are available to everyone.

More than 35.000 every day, more than 250.000 every month and more than 1 million a month, are the data that show how high these figures are, which reveal many things, above all, the naivety and lack of knowledge of the users . The data is not normally used by those who steal it, they simply sell it on the black market for third parties to take advantage of the data. It is also due to security holes, such as those in Equifax or the sounded Yahoo!

The majority of users continue to fall for phishing, curiously. This data is of particular concern to Google, as phishing primarily steals personal data, which can be sold to create false identities. To give us an idea, phishing utilities that seek to track the user's IP and geolocation have increased by 82%.