DETAILED PERSONAL INFORMATION is worth a lot, says Stephen Mark, information officer at Discovery. Mark told delegates to the Security Summit that an effective security information programme should start by acknowledging that information was an asset and that it needed to be assigned an owner and a value.

This information is more valuable than people might think, and there was great demand for it on the black market, he said. Detailed personal information, for example, was at a premium, with credit card information and a valid PIN fetching as much as $490 on the black market.

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