A new report says that the five states with the largest number of identity theft offenders are Florida, California, Texas, New Jersey and Georgia.
The report, "The New Face of Identity Theft," by Utica College's Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP), states that more identity criminals, now almost 64 percent, were found to be operating as part of a group rather than by themselves; contrary to the 2007 study which found the majority of identity criminals acted alone. Similarly, technological devices used by offenders increased to now represent 62 percent of all identity theft cases in the study.