Online identity auction selling credit cards for half a dollar

Internet security giant Symantec has just published the latest Internet Security Threat Report, based on an in-depth analysis of global Internet traffic and email during the last six months. Beyond all the usual who is hosting what and where, how much malware is contained in spam and which threats are continuing to cause problems data, there is one truly shocking statistic buried within the 134 page document: stolen information is dirt cheap on the black web economy.