Additionally to the individual thefts, there have been breaches of secure information in almost every sector of the business community, sometimes effecting hundreds of thousand of people at one time.
8 shocking facts from the Federal Trade Commission about Identity Theft -
• Identity theft has been the big top consumer complaint to the FTC for the past five years in a row.
• The FTC estimates that victims each spend 600 hours recuperating from ID theft, and approximately $1,400 repairing damage to their good name and credit record.
• It is approximated that victims of identity theft lose an average of $5,720 per incident.
• In 26 percent of all cases, the victim knew who had abused their personal information.
• It is calculated that 9 percent of all victims reported a family member or relative as the person responsible for misusing their personal information.
• 39 percent of victims ascertained that their identity was stolen more than seven months after it first occurred.
• 29 percent of identity theft complaints were a part of Generation Y (ages 18-29).
• 25 percent of identity theft victim information was misapplied through credit card fraud.
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