{"id":1796,"date":"2017-02-02T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2017-02-06T10:11:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:11:18","slug":"identity-theft-one-way-crooks-get-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/2017\/02\/identity-theft-one-way-crooks-get-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Theft: One way crooks get rich."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">A study done by Javelin Strategy and Research in the US showed a significant increase in the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">number<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0of people who became victims of identity theft. A 16% percent increase from 13.1 million in 2015 to 15.4 million in 2016. That is in MILLIONS. While the study was conducted on US adults, the significance to us here in Malaysia and the people all over the world is big. Physical theft needs careful planning, and cannot be reproduced with the same level of &#8216;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">success<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8216; repeatedly. Digital crimes, on the other hand, can. The landscape of cyberspace is the same everywhere. It may have an extra wall or two for protection in the form of firewalls and such, but in generality, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">its<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0the same. The efforts shared in a forum, can very well sprout <em><strong>imitations<\/strong> <\/em>throughout the world by different individuals, with more or less the same outcome.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">Tara Seals of the InfoSecurity Magazine wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/crooks-raked-in-16b-via-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">article <\/a>on how\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><a href=\"Crooks%20Raked in $16B via Identity Fraud Last Year\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Crooks Raked in $16B via Identity Fraud in 2016<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Javelin Strategy and Research posted this infographic to help understanding.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[gview file=&#8221;https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/709\/2017\/02\/17-1001J-2017-LL-Identity-Fraud-Hits-Record-High-Javelin.pdf&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>We as a consumer and user, must always be vigilent of our usage and storage of credit cards and such. Take steps to stay safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study done by Javelin Strategy and Research in the US showed a significant increase in the number\u00a0of people who became victims of identity theft. A 16% percent increase from 13.1 million in 2015 to 15.4 million in 2016. That is in MILLIONS. While the study was conducted on US adults, the significance to us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,88,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-news-from-around-the-globe","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}