BENGALURU: We survive in the digital era these days, where information holds the key for our prospective lives. We learn, share, communicate and debate via digital forms like computers, laptops and mostly smart phones. These gadgets made our life easy to lead and have won all our trust in short time. Now the question arises, are we safe in the hands of this day’s technology, compiles Lifehack.

We have the ease of doing things in a very short time as they are just a click away or a tap away but along with the comforts come the threats of digital era.

In practical life, humans take a lifetime to trust another human being whereas with technology, they don’t need time at all and have no idea of the consequences. So, here are the five threats you might face in the digital era.

Identity Theft

It is not a difficult task for any stranger to get the personal details of a person, as it is all there put up in the internet. Identity theft is a crime, where the hacker steals your personal info and passwords for his or her purposes like your credit card details, license number and so on.

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