After the latest newsworthy security breach of over 64,000 Ohio State Employees Identity Information, Ohio has chosen to go with Debix, a leading identity theft prevention service, in order to provide credit and proactive fraud alert based monitoring for all of their employees. We think this is an astute move, considering that traditional credit monitoring […]
Ohio State Goes With Debix
Published on June 25th, 2007
Posted by ID Guy in Identity Theft News
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MSNBC To Catch An Identity Thief
Published on June 1st, 2007
Posted by ID Guy in Identity Theft Video
This MSNBC video takes the viewer on a walk through online chat rooms where credit information is traded in exchange for cash. With a bank authorized credit card and stopwatch in hand, the reporter times how long it takes for identity thieves to use credit card information released into the “the wild”. The results are […]
Identity Theft Statistics
Published on May 4th, 2007
10 million Americans will be a victim of identity theft this year.
26 Times More Likely To Be A Victim Of ID Theft Than A Violent Crime
1,826 Times More Likely Than To Be Murdered
21 Times More Likely Than To Have Your Home Burglarized
2 Times More Likely Than Being In an Auto Accident
13 Times More Likely Than […]