Information used in identity theft, including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, was not stored with the credit card accounts. |
This will focus on mitigating the risk of fraud, hacking, identity theft, scams and schemes. |
As Dan points out, this is a recipe for identity theft, and in no meaningful way can be said to increase security. |
After the plague of viruses and worms, the main security issues of 2003 were identity theft, spam, keyboard loggers and social engineering. |
My take-away from this is that there are some steps that we can individually take to improve our security against identity theft. |
They work as a cyber profiling team, responsible for investigating identity theft crimes linked to computer use. |