When I read the article from PC Magazine on the FTC’s released data on Identity Theft blew me away.
“The Federal Trade Commission made public some startling statistics on identity theft this week. According to their own survey data, 27.3 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, and a whopping 9.9 million people joined this unfortunate list in just the last 12 months. The crime, the FTC found, costs consumers $5 billion, but the damage is not, according to the FTC, limited to individual; the commission’s survey also found that businesses lost nearly $48 billion last year in cases of identity theft.”
Simply amazing for the rest of the story [PC Magazine]