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Help protect your employees and customers from identity theft. This policy from TechRepublic Premium outlines precautions for reducing risk, signs to watch out for and steps to take if you suspect identity theft has occurred.

Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, assumed the identity of his brother in 1965, a quarter century after his sibling's death as an infant, and used the stolen identity to obtain Social Security benefits under both identities, multiple passports and state identification cards, law enforcement officials said. A new investigation was launched in 2020 after facial identification software indicated Gonzalez's face was on two state identification cards.

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To protect your password manager account, you're required to set up a master password. That master password must be especially strong and complex and certainly should never be used elsewhere, but almost half of the password manager users hit by identity theft used their master password for other accounts.

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The Identity Theft Resource Center has published a research that shows nearly 40 percent of ITRC victims say their personal information was stolen, compromised or misused in the past year. This Help Net Security video provides information how social media account takeover affect consumers and victims.

By misusing the PayPal logo and general design, the phishing kit leads users through a set of pages and forms aimed at collecting information that can later be used to steal the victims' identity and perform money laundering, open cryptocurrency accounts, make fraudulent tax return claims, and much more. The attackers using the kit are targeting legitimate WordPress sites.

Capital One Financial Corporation announced [] that on July 19, 2019, it determined there was unauthorized access by an outside individual who obtained certain types of personal information relating to people who had applied for its credit card products and to Capital One credit card customers. As you will notice from the OCC's remarks above, the breach ultimately came down to poor cloud security, with data apparently exposed due to being shifted from a privately-controlled data store into the cloud.

SSN is short for Social Security Number, which is effectively a US national ID number, and DOB translates into date of birth. Unfortunately knowing someone's SSN is a good starting point if you're an identity thief, because it can often be combined with other personal information to get past identity checks.

The New York State Office of the Attorney General warned victims of the August 2021 T-Mobile data breach that they faced identity theft risks after some of the stolen information ended up for sale on the dark web. The alert comes after individuals impacted in the incident were notified by identity theft protection services that their info was found online, demonstrating that affected consumers are now at heightened risk for identity theft.