Frank Abagnale Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

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

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.

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.

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.

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.

I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.

It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals.

Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

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

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.

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.

Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm.

Privacy is a thing of the past.

It may be well possible that phished passwords ended up being used at Sci-Hub. I did not send any phishing emails to anyone myself. The exact source of the passwords was never personally important to me.

We deeply regret and are very sorry that some of our customers' payment cards were used fraudulently after making purchases at our stores.