Elizabeth Banks Quotes

The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.

The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.

If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

Identity theft has become an international business.

You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.

If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity.

I woke up one morning to an email from my friend Alex that said she'd had her bag stolen. Ordinarily, I'm quite quick on the uptake, but - maybe because of the way it was worded - I immediately replied, 'What??????' As soon as I hit send, I realised I was being scammed. But then they replied, and I thought, 'Well, why not?'

Incredibly, hackers were able to obtain at least 20 million identities of people who under FBI background and were under FBI background investigations.

Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or bank account has never been easier, and the tools for committing electronic mischief on your enemies are cheap and widely accessible.

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.

I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused.

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information.

It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.

There's always a risk that your iPhone can be stolen, and the people who stole it can use the data, your private photos, etc. to blackmail you.