According to a recent Gallup Poll, people are more fearful of becoming a victim of identity fraud than of any other crime. Gallup.com
The Identity Theft Resource Center states there were 750 announced data leaks in 2015, and all tallied, 178 million records were lost or stolen.Credit.com
Nearly 122 million healthcare records were stolen during 264 reported breaches, the most of any industry, the ITRC reports. Credit.com
The IRS has filed an amended statement on the ‘Get Transcript’ hack — which reports that 700,000 U.S. taxpayer accounts were accessed or targeted, and 47 million transcripts have been ordered to date. Forbes.com
Tax-refund fraud is expected to soar again this tax season (2015), and hit a whopping $21 billion by 2016, from just $6.5 billion two years ago, according to the Internal Revenue Service. - CNBC.com.