There are two victims to identity theft: the person harmed and the
enterprise that may be unknowingly involved.
ID scoring is a better approach that credit monitoring companies can
offer the security service to their employees, too.
The
,
a non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to the understanding and
prevention of identity theft, defines identity theft as “a crime in which an
impostor obtains key pieces of personal identifying information such as Social
Security numbers and driver’s license numbers and uses them for their own
personal gain.