Hey there! Welcome to Life Noggin.
The internet is pretty awesome, we know this.
It's what allowed my animator to create our wonderful Life Noggin universe.
But as cool as the internet can be, it can also connect people in bad, malicious ways.
It can be a place for hackers and data thieves to steal your personal information and then sell it to the highest bidder.
So that makes me wonder, just how valuable is your information?
The numbers vary between sources on a bunch of this stuff, but your credit card details could be worth anywhere from say $5 to $15 or more depending on how complete the information is, while the login info to your favorite streaming service could go for about $10 to the right buyer.
Often times the more the information is tied to your financials, and the more it's something that you can't easily change, the more it's worth to internet thieves.
That's why your health record is a big one.
A report from the FBI back in 2014 said that cyber criminals could sell electronic health records, or EHRs, on the black market at a rate of about $50 per partial record.
