“Identity theft is one of those things that you think you’ll never experience personally. Excuse the grim analogy, but it’s a bit like death. It always happens to someone else. But identity theft is rampant, and given our ever-increasing propensity to put all sorts of information online, the chances of it happening to either ourselves or someone we know is relatively high.
According to The US National Institute of Justice estimates there were 9 million incidents of identity theft in 2011 alone in the US, almost 3 percent of the population. Clearly, there are lots of people out there who make a living stealing people’s identities.”
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