The study , a joint project of the Computer Security Institute and the FBI's San Francisco computer crime squad, painted a dire picture. Ninety percent of the 540 respondents surveyed detected computer security breaches in the past year, and the 44 percent who were willing or able to name a dollar figure claimed a total loss of $455.8 million dollars to hack attacks. . . .
The study , a joint project of the Computer Security Institute and the FBI's San Francisco computer crime squad, painted a dire picture. Ninety percent of the 540 respondents surveyed detected computer security breaches in the past year, and the 44 percent who were willing or able to name a dollar figure claimed a total loss of $455.8 million dollars to hack attacks.

Although the survey's respondents were primarily employees of large corporations, widespread media coverage of the report has influenced some home users who, plagued by seemingly constant security alerts, had already begun to look at their computers with fear and loathing.

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