Twelve-million pieces of online personal information were in the hands of fraudsters in the first quarter of 2012 – a 300 percent increase since 2010, according to credit-checking firm Experian.
The company also said that many people were unaware that they were identity theft victims until they were refused credit cards of mobile phone contracts, according to an article from Computer Weekly.
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