ID Theft Decreases in 2006
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Incidents of identity theft are decreasing, and the average loss as a result of fraud has dropped, a new study suggests. The improvement may reflect a higher awareness of the problem by consumers and businesses, say experts.
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Now there are tools available online to safeguard against the theft of Social Security numbers.
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Attorney Eric J. Sinrod finds that the facts belie the general belief that ID theft is rampant. Still, victory is a way off.
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There was a 3% drop in the amount of money lost to card fraud in 2006.
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Identity theft topped the FTC's 2006 list of consumer complaints.
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Increasing concerns about identity theft are driving a growing number of counties to start redacting personal data from public records on their Web sites. But the work remains challenging.
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Hundreds of millions of people were left vulnerable to identity theft in 2007 because of data breaches, resarchers say.
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Americans lost at least $548 million  to identity theft and consumer fraud last year as the Internet  provided new victims for age-old scams, according to government  statistics released Tuesday.
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By Paul Wenske, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Jun. 8--If you're like lots of Americans, you're increasingly wary of identity theft.
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Most Britons are taking precautions against identity fraud, a new survey has found.
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Blog: Government auditors say only a fraction of the largest intrusions in recent years showed clear evidence of resulting identity theft, but they admit that's not always easy to gauge.
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Rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Educate customers or lose them.
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Attorney Eric J. Sinrod says the federal government is finally taking steps to combat  identity theft.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- Consumers are doing a better job of guarding against identity thieves, yet most still give out too many personal details, making themselves vulnerable to becoming one of the millions of victims each year, according to a survey
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Consumers are bombarded with warnings about identity theft. Publicized threats range from mailbox thieves and lost laptops to the higher-tech methods of e-mail scams and corporate data invasions.
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Gimme shelter US identity theft losses dropped 11.5 per cent last year to $49.3bn, according to a new study.â¦
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Personal identity has taken on a new meaning in the digital age, where basic facts like your name, address or age are far less important to some people than the collected records of what you were looking at online.