The Identity Theft Scare
Identity fraud is always a lot of attention these days - the absence of news about laptops and lost data to television, commercials for the fight against fraud and surveillance of establishments credit services. Congress hearings, and members have the anticipation of imminent flood of identity theft. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), in a statement typical of many of his colleagues in Congress, said that “social security numbers and date of birth of pure gold are in the hands of Identitätsdieben quickly, they process credit cards and D’cash equivalents to perpetrate massive fraud “.
If a laptop was stolen from the apartment of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee this year, in newspapers across the nation editorialized about the dangers facing the people whose data on the computer. The Post has published alone, more than 40 stories and wrote that “26.5 million veterans were at risk of identity theft.” VA’s announcement all 26.5 million of them and asked Congress for $ 160.5 million to cover one year of supervision of credit for veterans.
Then the laptop was - the data intact and the risk of identity theft showed that the nullity.
The Happy End of the saga VA would no doubt surprise anyone. The fact is that few, if any such breaches lead to identity theft or other violations of consumers.
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