Identity Theft and Solutions

You may have heard the news about identity theft happened or happening in our daily life. Now identity theft will appear in many different ways and new methods of information theft will be soon created by those who are living for stealing others’ personal data and information. People who suffered from identity theft must know and understand the different ways of information theft. You should understand how it occurs before you take measures to fight against this crime.

How does information theft occur?

One type of information theft occurs after the criminal has obtained the victim’s personal financial information, and then the criminal utilize the information to open a new account to purchase or consume under the new account.

Another type of information theft is criminal theft, which means the criminal will break laws to offer false information to authorities. This kind of information theft causes many criminal activities that people can’t track the criminal’s trace.

Almost all information theft involves money, especially the business and commercial information theft. Business information theft will result in great financial and reputational loss to both the owner and the customer of the business.

When you read this article, you may wonder how it happens and how can you prevent it from happening. The identity theft may dig your personal trash to obtain your personal information, you may think it impossible, and while you should know that your personal data and information will be reuse by those who are willing to use your information to do bad things when you randomly throw away the rubbish with your personal information in it. Another way you’re your identity information will be stolen is that your purse with credit card and medical card has been stolen. There’s another way that lead to your identity information loss. Your children or family members may carelessly disclose your information when you tend to store the information in your PC. The Internet makes us able to access to the world and also makes others can easily access to the information stored in your computer. With some malware in the market, hackers who want to steal your information are able to get your information. If you tend to store your confidential and personal information such as credit information and medical data without any protection in your PC, your children or family members use this PC when you are away, they may access the information and disclose it by misconducts. For example, hackers will send link with virus or email with malware attachment to your children, once your children click on the link or download the attachment and open it; the virus and malware in them will soon invade your computer to damage or steal the data.

How to prevent identity theft?

Check your credit card consumption report and change your password of such kind of identity information. You’d better set different passwords for different cards. If you always store your personal information in PC, I recommend you to password protect windows folder contained your information. You can encrypt the files with third party software so that other s can’t access your information without correct password.

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