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Study finds 140, 000 children are victims of identity theft each year
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:57:34 -0400
http://gantdaily.com/2011/07/12/study-finds-140000-children-are-victims-of-identity-theft-each-year/ A new study from ID ANALYTICS found that a startling 140,000 identity frauds are perpetrated on minors each year. • Credit card and wireless activity most common—60 percent of the potential fraudulent identity use alerts sent to minors originated from the credit card industry. The vast majority of the remaining alerts were from the telecommunications industry, mostly wireless providers. • Minors who received an alert through the study were seven times more likely to experience fraud than an adult. They received 0.5 perc ... _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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