Another Phine Kettle of Phish: Identity Theft Prevention

You read the headlines every day: 40-plus million Americans have fallen victim to identity crimes. In fact,

And the stories keep coming about the growing number of large-scale security breaches: UPS loses CitiGroup's1 CitiFinancial records on 3.9 million people and data files on millions of consumers; LexisNexis and ChoicePoint sell information to identity thieves; Wachovia and Bank of America customer records are stolen by employees and sold to collection agencies; CardSystems alone has exposed 40 million Visa, MasterCard, and other company cardholders to ID theft, resulting in the first class action lawsuit2 in this area. Even more headlines on identity theft will probably have emerged between the time I am writing this article and when you read it.