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The Risk of Identity Theft at The Workplace

When a person applies for a job and is eventually hired, his or her personal information is stored. Copies of social security numbers, driver’s licenses, and even bank routing numbers are made and stored in filing cabinets and computer databases. Without the proper security measures in place, any employee’s personal information could be retrieved and illegally used. The risk of identity theft at the workplace is high if there is improper security that could easily be breached.

There are many ways to prevent personal information from falling into the wrong lap.

Lock paper job applications in a safe place and only allow certain Human Resources employees to access online applications. Social security numbers could easily be copied from either form of the job application. If your business requires employees to have an HID card, then the boundaries could be simply put in place. Program a Human Resource department employee’s HID card so that he or she is the only person who is allowed to access the files that hold personal employee information. Do the same for anyone who would be allowed access to the paper applications.

Consider having a company ID printer …

Data Protection as a Protection From Identity Theft

There are infinite reasons for a person to think about ways to protect against identity theft and fraud. When put into simple words, identity theft refers to one person using some other person’s identity as his own, without that person’s knowledge, especially for something that is unlawful. Stealing identity can be backed by various causes the most important of which is financial. The simplest and the most common form of financial identity stealing refers to using someone else’s credit card without the latter’s knowledge. When pick pockets manage to get access to another person’s wallet, the first thing they go for is the credit cards which they can use pretending to be the owner, especially when the cards do not have any photo identity. There can be other forms of identity theft also. People can pose as some other person to avail medication that they are not entitled to. This kind of medical identity theft is done for the sake of narcotic based prescription drugs. Criminal identity theft is very dangerous. It refers to a situation when the criminal in question poses to be another person when the police tries to arrest …

Statistics of Identity Theft Numbers Tell It All

Identity theft has risen from 4.2 million to 6-7 million cases throughout the last 5 years in which ecommerce has grown over the Internet. Potential victims are unaware of the thieves’ intentions until they receive their credit reports and make their claims. Statistics of identity theft are approaching alarming numbers as thieves use more complex scams to handle others’ information. It may include creating phony web pages and replaying server directors to send potential victims to their sites to enter their information. How can this be occurring so easily in the new, advanced society? Apparently the internet opened the door most identity thieves have been waiting for years.

E-Commerce

The first cases of identity theft popped up once the internet created a sweeping presence in the business markets. Identity thieves created ways to pop up in IPO servers to gather some information from listing companies. These identity thieves create phony business accounts under previous victims to gather intelligence on future victims. With the phony business accounts available, the listing companies gave away the information to numerous identity thieves which increased the identity theft statistics around the globe. The numbers continue to climb …