Guarding Against Identity Theft
Take steps so criminals won’t take vital information from you. October 17, 2018 America is enduring a data breach epidemic. The latest annual study of the problem from Javelin Strategy & Research, a leading financial analytics research firm, says that 16.7 million people across the nation were impacted by I.D. theft in 2017 – an all-time high.1 The problem is getting worse – much worse. Last year, 30% of U.S. consumers were alerted about data breaches by firms holding their personal information. In 2016, just 12% of consumers were so affected.1 Social Security numbers were compromised in 35% of I.D.
October 17, 2018
