According to the data released by Turkey's Interbank Card Centre, the total value of transactions performed through credit cards in the last two days of 2007 amounted to TnL 557mn (US$ 477.32mn EUR 325.09mn).

According to a survey by RISSC carried out in Italy, 90% of respondents are afraid of being victims of online personal data theft. While 74% of the interviewees believe that identity theft will increase in the future. 38% of them have been directly or...