High Street Retailer Swinton Warns Homeowner from Posting Personal Info on Facebook and Twitter
UK’s leading high street home insurance retailer Swinton warned its customers from posting sensitive personal information on their social networking accounts, saying that “they should be extra careful” with what they give out to the public.
In issuing the warning, Swinton cited the alarming increase in number of burglary cases in UK that were related to people posting updates about their properties and vacations in the social networking sites.
The home insurance provider said that many of the criminals are now browsing social networking accounts of people in Facebook and Twitter to see if they can take advantage of the holidays while people were far away from home.
Swinton also said that online users should limit the information they post to social networking accounts like Facebook and Twitter to just their phone numbers and address. More sensitive data should be kept in private to avoid such scenario.
Meanwhile, in a separate statement, the Association of British Insurers said that the danger in the use of social networking has increased further as people posting sensitive information also grew bigger.
They said that some 40 percent Brits has the hobby of posting updates about their holiday vacation. They also said that these people are unwittingly giving away information to the criminal minds lurking online.
Also, one out of every three Brits always post updates about their weekend breaks,
“Posting personal details on social networking sites, such as when you are away on holiday, are advertising your home to thieves which can result in burglaries that could otherwise be avoided. To keep content insurance premiums down, social network users need to be extra careful when revealing personal information,” Steve Chelton, insurance development manager at Swinton said.
Swinton is UK’s largest high street insurance retailer with over 580 branches nationwide.
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