Facebook is great isn’t it? You can get in touch with old school friends you haven’t seen or spoken to for years, have a nose about what they’re doing and what they look like now and just generally pass the time.

All fairly innocent use. But, some people have used Facebook in the past for slightly less delightful purposes. Affairs have been ignited thanks to this social networking trend and now even robbers are getting in on the act.

A burglar who stole a laptop from Hove in East Sussex apparently taunted his victim via Facebook. But this wasn’t the offender using their own account to tell their friends what they’d done. Oh no, this cheeky burglar rubbed salt into the wounds by using the victim’s own Facebook account….

I’ve heard of people finding a lost phone and using the owner’s Facebook account to tell them they’ve found their missing handset, but this takes a good tool to a whole new nasty level.

Let’s hope the burglar was stupid enough to log into Facebook while at home and gets caught soon enough.

Hardly a day goes by without Gary McKinnon’s name being mentioned. If you don’t know who Gary McKinnon is, many people would assume you’re a bit detached from the real world or living in a vacuum. Or just not interested in one of the most high-profile hacking cases in recent years.

To recap, he was the man who hacked into the pentagon. He’s admitted what he’s done, but the legal wrangles continue as to whether he should be tried for his crime in the UK or US. Clearly the latter will be less kind to him in terms of sentencing, if kind indeed be a word you can use when it comes to prisons.

This week, the Conservative Party got involved. They’ve got a view on everything else, so it’s no surprise that they would add their say to McKinnon-gate too.

Indeed, according to media reports, today the opposition plans to use a Commons Vote to show their displeasure in a possible extradition order being granted.

“The information that must be provided by both the United States and the United Kingdom is effectively the same. The United Kingdom must demonstrate ‘probable cause’ to the United States courts, while the United States must demonstrate ‘reasonable suspicion’ to ours,” the Home Office claimed in a statement published by the Guardian.

“Extradition is a key crime-fighting measure in our increasingly globalised world and, within what the law permits, we give maximum assistance to all of our extradition partners.”

It certainly pays to be fashionable. And Posh Spice et al have a lot to answer for…

That’s if you believe research out today by CPP that reckons women with large handbags are making themselves more of a tempting victim for ID fraudsters. Supposedly, this is because ladies are carrying around far more than they need in these larger than life bags, including passports, bills, pay slips and so on - a veritable banquet for the bad guys to feast on.

And, before the men in the industry become complacent, they should realise they’re at risk too. As the Telegraph points out, one in 10 guys now carry a so-called ‘man bag’ with many of them using it to transport documents that could easily prove lucrative in the wrong hands.

“It’s easy to forget that your identity is as valuable to a thief as your wallet or car keys. As handbags get bigger and man-bags become more popular, people need to be aware of the risks attached to carrying around personal documentation and avoid doing so if at all possible,” CPP card fraud expert, Kerry D’Souza, told the Telegraph. “Ideally your passport, bank statements, passwords and payslips should be locked away at home in a secure place.”