Identity Theft Mostly Caused by Lost Laptops, Third Parties
Identify theft affected somewhere between 8 and 15 million Americans in 2005, according to Tom Abate’s article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. One report just issued by the Federal Trade Commission estimated that identity theft struck about 4% of all adult Americans in 2005. Those numbers mean that identity thieves are twice as likely to target American consumers as are street criminals. But another report issued last February estimates that the problem is much worse than the FTC calculates. The market research firm Gartner’s study suggested that 15 million Americans had been victimized in the 12-month period ending August 2006....
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