CreditExpert, Experian'sweb monitoring service, is reporting "a massive surge" in the selling of stolen online log-in credentials involving British Internet users. 

The number stolen in the first four months of 2012 is said to outstrip the number sold in the whole of 2010 when some 9.5 million pieces of purloined personal information were traded in online forums frequented by cyber-crooks.

In the first four months of 2012, CreditExpertis reporting that more than 12 million pieces of personal information about British online users were traded.

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