We read it in the headlines all too often: “Facebook, PayPal Users Urged to Check Logins After Hacking,” “Sony Hacked Again; 25 Million Entertainment Users’ Data at Risk,” “Zappos Says Hacker May Have Accessed Info on 24 Million Customers,” and most recently, “MasterCard, Visa Warn of Credit Card Data Theft.”
Clearly, fraud that leads to identity theft remains a very real threat. Once hackers infiltrate businesses’ networks, they can access customers’ personal information and use it to assume false identities, open credit cards or apply for loans in customers’ names.