The US is home to the greatest amount of information perverts, based on research.

The research Where Is Your Information (pdf) shows more American Tor dark internet lurkers had seen allegedly 1568 valid private details, and credit card and social security numbers in a spreadsheet than some of the other 22 states where snoops’ links were followed.

As the spreadsheet was downloaded it was smacked with a tracking watermark that telephoned home online with the would be scammer’s IP address, user names, and device types.

It was subsequently disperse to other file sharing websites where it was downloaded and after resold by unscrupulous scammers.

In the very first day or two, the information had reached over five states, three continents and was seen over 200 times – by 12 days it’d received over 1081 clicks, and had spread from the other side of the world to 22 different states, in five continents,” the report reads.

VPNs based there, or Belgium users, clocked the next top source for links buying or seeing the details that was posted to be able to track how fast and far the information would go after an escape that was supposed.

British users were dull, while New Zealand punched above its weight defeating Russia and Turkey to claim 13th standing, coming in eighth place.

Australia was absent, perhaps suggesting the convict colony.

BitGlass’ proprietary monitoring mechanism stayed when the spreadsheet was duplicated elsewhere, or “mutilated”.

It may restrict the effect of the analysis as it’d appear to neglect if content opened on cartons that are offline or had noticed and outsmarted the mechanism