Fighting ID theft [Security Personal Information]

IDENTITY IS NOW a commodity. As personally-identifiable information circulates increasingly online, thieves are hell-bent on stealing it. Credit card information, names, addresses, and dates of birth are just some of the data points that can trade for money online - and help to trash their owners' credit scores, or worse. ID theft is a growing problem. In the UK, fraud prevention agency CIFAS said that the number of recorded victims rose 31 per cent to 32,058 in the first three months of 2015, compared to the same period in 2014. What's more, over 80 per cent of it happened online.