Acuant Creates Identity Theft List to Raise Awareness and Educate
Acuant Corp, a leading provider in credential management and identity solutions, has created a list of 101 ways your identity can be stolen.
Culver City, CA, July 7, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Acuant Corp has compiled an identity theft list that is unlike any other online. The list is meant to help raise awareness for all of the different ways hackers and thieves can steal your identity.
Most people don't realize most of the methods on the list that hackers use to steal your identity and use it for monetary gains. It can hurt your credit score so badly, not to mention the headache and frustrations it will cause to reverse the effects of it.
By knowing most of the ways that hackers use to steal your identity, you can help to safeguard yourself from falling into their traps. Everyone needs to be careful both online and offline, so it's not just the digital space where hackers are thriving.
They could go through your trash, mail, or even your old cell phone to find out private information about you to use to setup accounts for credit cards and other financial institutions.
But the most common types of identity theft schemes are with identification cards - your credit cards, debit cards, driver's license and medical ID cards. This is why having an identity solution is important, especially if you are a business.
Credential management and identity solutions not only helps to streamline the process of inputting cards into a system, it also helps to keep your information more secure by encrypting this information.
Be sure to be aware of all the different identity theft schemes so you can keep yourself and your family protected, as well as your business, employees and customers.