Frank Abagnale Quotes

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

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.

The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

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.

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.

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

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

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.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

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

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.