New identity fraud victim every two seconds thanks to massive data breaches

Javelin Strategy & Research surveyed 5,634 US consumers in October of 2013. The total financial impact of identity fraud is down to only $18 billion. The number of affected consumers continues to grow. In an era of big data, and increased reliance on online services and transactions, there is no reason to believe that data breaches will stop, or even slow down, any time soon. There is littleactually, nothingthat individual consumers can do to stem the tide of data breaches.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2137146/new-identity-fraud-victim-every-two-seconds-thanks-to-massive-data-breache.html