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Identity Theft
By: Tyler Brenton
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Identity theft refers to the preparatory stage of acquiring and collecting someone else’s personal information for criminal purposes
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Every minute about 19 people fall victim to identity theft.
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The number of identity theft incidents has reached 9.9 million a year, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
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With increased use of technology in our day to day lives…
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… we leave ourselves more and more vulnerable to identity theft.
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“I am very concerned. The issue of cybersecurity is now considered to be one of the main areas of fraud and crime. We have urged companies to
take much more seriously the threat of hacking.” – Keith
Vaz
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It’s not just small web start up companies that have been compromised…
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… eBay, Paypal, Sony, South Korean banks, British security have all fallen victim to hackers.
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That’s without mentioning Heartbleed. Which affected users of Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Amazon
among other large sites.
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Thieves can also gain your personal information through e-mail phishing and getting the victim to download spywares or other viruses.
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Criminals can use your information to open new bank accounts, transfer bank balances,apply for loans or credit cards and make purchases.
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However, users can give themselves the upper-hand over hackers.
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“The worrying thing is that many people use a single password for more than one internet site and so if the passwords are compromised, they could be at further
risk from cybercriminal activity.” - David Emm, Kaspersky
Lab
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As technology evolves so must society. We must become more privy to bad links that may leadto infecting our computers and putting our personal information at risk.
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The trail of personal information we leave on social media…
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… could hinder us in the future.
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Many details to our lives are easily found online.
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Terms and conditions are too long
Privacy settings are often too complicated
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But maybe there is reason to read everything we agree to. It could help us one day if we become a victim of identity theft.
Sources• http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams-fraudes/id-theft-vol-eng.htm• http://www.transunion.com/personal-credit/identity-theft-and-fraud/
identity-theft-facts.page• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10848080/More-than-15-
million-Britons-at-risk-of-identity-theft-after-eBay-hacked.html• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10848080/More-than-15-
million-Britons-at-risk-of-identity-theft-after-eBay-hacked.html
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